Petition for review

[4] In some jurisdictions, appellate tribunals will not rule on issues that are not raised in petitions for review.

[9] Beginning in the sixteenth century, the Court of King's Bench also gained the power to issue prerogative writs.

[9] However, writs of certiorari are traditionally only used when "the inferior body has acted without jurisdiction or determined an issue wrongly in law, but not on the ground that it had misconceived a point of law if it had jurisdiction and the proceedings are ex facie regular, nor on the ground that its decision is wrong in fact".

[14] The court actions of enjoining, suspending and/or modifying the agency order is inherently part of a petition for review.

[15] When a party submits a petition for review, the petitioner "must either identify in [the administrative] record evidence sufficient to support its standing to seek review or, if there is none because standing was not an issue before the agency, submit additional evidence to the court of appeals".

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse is the home of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , which decides a large number of petitions for review of actions taken by federal agencies.