What Is the Supreme Court Doing When It Issues a Writ

question 12

Multiple Choice

What is the Supreme Court doing when it issues a writ of certiorari?

• A)It is ordering a lower court to rehear a case.
• B)It is overturning a previous Supreme Court ruling.
• C)It is agreeing to hear the appeal of a lower court ruling.
• D)It is rejecting an appeal to rehear a case,noting that it is certain its first ruling was correct.

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Definitions:

Transduction

The process by which sensory stimuli are converted into electrical signals in the nervous system.

Heterotrophic

An organism that obtains its energy and carbon by consuming other organisms, unable to produce its own food.

Autotrophic

Organisms capable of synthesizing their own food from inorganic substances using light or chemical energy.

Parasitic

Pertaining to organisms that live on or in a host organism and cause harm to their host.