Petition for Reconsideration: Grounds for Appeal

Pursuant to R.B. § 3-9-5.2, any election member who has been negatively impacted by a ruling of a three-justice panel may petition to the entire Supreme Court for reconsideration.

This petition must be submitted no later than 48 hours after the final judgment was announced.

A petition for reconsideration must include (1) a specific identification of the ruling being appealed; (2) a specific request for relief; (3) an argument as to why that ruling was wrongly decided and why that relief should be granted; and (4) any relevant evidence.

In order for the Court to accept your petition, you must prove that you have grounds to appeal. Here are the grounds to appeal as identified in R.B. § 6-3-1:

(1) The three-justice panel ruling constitutes a clear error in judgment or failure of due process, such that a reasonable panel could not have reached that conclusion.

(2) The case rises or falls by a matter of interpretation of the Constitution, Bylaws, or other act or statute.

(3) There is evidence that the panel's ruling may have been influenced by bias on the part of one or more justices.

(4) Any other considerable malfeasance that the supreme court deems sufficient.

The purpose of this petition is to establish that you have grounds for appeal; thus, your argument and evidence should be predominately focused on a specific ground for appeal. If the Court decides to accept your petition, you will be invited to resubmit a reply brief through a separate form.

The Court may choose to either keep the decision of the panel the same, increase the number of points, or reduce the number of points up to zero.