A petition For a Writ of Certiorari is a legal request to have the Supreme Court agree to accept a case on appeal from a lower court.
Phillip Berg has asked Justice David Souter to grant such a Writ and Souter has taken the issue under advisement. Souter has asked Obama’s lawyers to submit their arguments by December 1st as to whether he should proceed to request a Writ of Certiorari. Supreme Court procedure is that 4 of the Justices must concur before the Supreme Court agrees to hear a case. The Supreme Court receives about 8,000 Petitions for a Writ of Certiorari a year and it usually accepts about 25 of those (which is called “granting cert”).
Granting Cert: the Supreme Court will hear a case that lost at a lower level.
Cert denied: the Supreme Court rejects the Petition for Writ of Certiorari and will not accept a case from a lower court on appeal.
So the SCOTUS denied it, correct?
Obama does not HAVE TO show a birt cert by any given date, correct?