An initial pleading in a lawsuit that seeks non-monetary or " equitable " relief, such as a request for a writ of mandamus or habeas corpus, custody of a child, or probate of a will, is instead called a petition.

The initiative seeks to affect the political process by petition, seeking the signatures of enough residents of the area on all sides of the conflict to drive the leaders of the various sides to concluding a peace agreement.

These laments, too, often have a set format: an address to God, description of the suffering / anguish which one seeks relief, a petition for help and deliverance, a curse towards one's enemies, an expression of the belief of ones innocence or a confession of the lack thereof, a vow corresponding to an expected divine response, and lastly, a song of thanksgiving.

The petition seeks official apology, compensation for the family members of the 24 massacre victims and financial contribution towards the educational and cultural development of the Ulu Yam community.

On August 10, Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro ruled that the " sore loser " provision in Ohio law ( ORC 3513. 04, which says that " No person who seeks party nomination for an office or position at a primary election by declaration of candidacy or by declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate ... shall be permitted to become a candidate by nominating petition or by declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate at the following general election ") did not apply to Padgett running for Ney's seat because it was for a different office.

To obtain an NLRB-conducted election, the union must file a petition supported by a showing of interest from at least thirty percent of the employees in the group that the union seeks to represent, typically called the bargaining unit.

The petition seeks to compel the companies to identify all of the ingredients used in their products.

As of 2010, an online petition seeks to establish " hella -" as the SI prefix for 10 < sup > 27 </ sup >.

As a result, several states have passed laws raising the minimum age of ferrets transported by commercial farms ; a petition to the U. S. Department of Agriculture submitted in 2004 seeks to make such regulations applicable nationally.

Barely veiled strike threats in the actors ' petition were met with an answering lockout threat from Rich in a " Reply of the Patentees ", but the burgeoning conflict was pre-empted by a suspension of all play-acting from December until March 1695 on account of Queen Mary's illness and death.

With an agent and an innocent bystander dead, and four more severely wounded, including two more innocent bystanders, and the complete escape of the Dillinger gang, the F. B. I came under severe criticism, with calls for J. Edgar Hoover's resignation and a widely circulated petition demanding Purvis ' suspension.

" Rychlak adds " In October 1942, a message went out from the Vatican to its representatives in Zagreb regarding the “ painful situation that spills out against the Jews in Croatia ” and instructing them to petition the government for “ a more benevolent treatment of those unfortunates .” The Cardinal Secretary of State ’ s notes reflect that Vatican petitions were successful in getting a suspension of “ dispatches of Jews from Croatia ” by January 1943, but Germany was applying pressure for “ an attitude more firm against the Jews .” Another instruction from the Holy See to its representatives in Zagreb directing them to work on behalf of the Jews went out on March 6, 1943.

In the midst of the work he was recalled to Florence by his conventual superior, and a minute of proceedings of the commune of Prato is still extant, in which it is determined to petition the metropolitan of Florence to obtain his return to Prato, a proof that his share in the work was so important that his recall involved the suspension of it.

An online petition calling for his reinstatement received over 250, 000 signatures, and two days after the suspension began, Griffin announced that Olbermann would return to the air starting with the November 9 program.

The intention was for the participants, who were mainly Lancashire weavers, to march to London and petition the Prince Regent over the desperate state of the textile industry in Lancashire, and to protest over the recent suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.

The city was established in 1948 but began to develop six years before it was granted the petition of incorporation.

It is said that Arthur told his children to continue to petition the government for their inheritance, and in 1857 Congress appropriated $ 30, 000 ( which was a fraction of what was due ) to the Arthur St. Clair Memorial, to be divided to the six branches of the family, with each branch receiving $ 5, 000.

In early 2007, there was a widespread public discussion about the granting of pardons in Germany after convicted Red Army Faction terrorist Christian Klar, who was serving six consecutive sentences of life imprisonment, filed a petition for pardon.

Placing a petition for an amendment on the ballot requires a number of valid signatures of registered voters equal to eight percent of the total number of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, higher than the six percent required for a change in statute.

Within six months of the Metro's official opening, a petition signed by 11 000 people demanded the restoration of direct bus links.

William Sancroft Archbishop of Canterbury and six other Bishops presented a petition to the King declaring the Indulgence illegal.

By presenting the Commission with its own rulings in a May 29, 1961 petition, Kennedy was able to prompt it to do what it had promised in 1955, five years before the Boynton ruling was handed down, and six years before the Freedom Riders set out to test Boynton across the Deep South.

Justice Ajmal Mian constituted six benches including the ten-member bench which continued hearing of the petitions challenging the appointment of Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah as Chief Justice of Pakistan. The ten-member bench also took up the petition challenging the Thirteenth Amendment.

The petition was ignored and a legal challenge by six members of the pre-1934 House of Assembly that argued that the National Convention Act and the Referendum Act were both unconstitutional was quashed when Justice Dunfield ruled that with the reversion of Newfoundland to Crown Colony status in 1934, the British Parliament was free to do as it saw fit.

The prayers recorded in early Christian literature can be categorized into six type: petition ( including intercession ), thanksgiving, blessing ( or benediction ), praise, confession and finally a small number of lamentations.

The cards must be signed and dated within six months of when the union files its petition to be valid ; if a worker subsequently signs a card for another union the NLRB will not count the card in support of either union.

Section 1 also allows, by six percent of voters placing a petition, for a statewide referendum on any law or any part of a law.

The amendments also gave employers the right to file a petition asking the Board to determine if a union represents a majority of its employees, and allow employees to petition either to decertify their union, or to invalidate the union security provisions of any existing collective bargaining agreement.

On July 24, 1968, Allen rejected the petition to dissolve the Wyandanch School District ; he told The New York Times that " serious obstacles imposed by existing law " prevented " dissolution of the district ," which the Times reported " is now 91. 5 per cent non white.

In December 2005, one-third of Fort Chipewyan's residents signed a petition to request the government to build a all-weather road to connect with existing roads to the northwest that provide access to Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

Most of the existing site was purchased by the City of Seattle in the later 1920s, with 20 % donated by Carkeek, following citizen petition over vigorous City opposition.

Numerous rumours about popular chains such as Topshop, H & M and Starbucks moving in to replace existing independent traders resulted in a petition being made to the UK government and protest groups on social networking site Facebook.

He was a member of the board of aldermen of the District of Columbia, in 1873 was chairman of a committee to present to Congress a petition asking for an investigation into the conduct of the board of public works, helped to obtain a committee report favorable to the abolition of the existing territorial form of government, and was active in the establishment of the present ( 1934 ) form of government that vests all authority in Congress.

The reforms would also favor existing unions by barring the board from considering more than one election petition at a time and tightening jurisdictional rules defining which labor organization can represent which workers, according to their craft, enterprise and company, making it impossible for some independent unions to challenge incumbents.

The current Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, has her grants entered into Volume V. Requests for registrations of existing arms also take the form of a " petition ", as described above.

The CHA will normally only register existing arms if the petitioner was unable to petition for a Canadian grant at the time the existing arms were granted, i. e., the arms of immigrants or arms granted to Canadians before the creation of the CHA in 1988.

When a union applies for DLA status, the AFL-CIO will clear the petition with existing affiliated unions with employees in the same jurisdiction ( s ) to see if there are any objections.

In addition, the petition asks the NRC to halt proceedings to approve the standardized AP1000 and ESBWR reactor designs.

) In 2006, a petition was created asking The Open Group to release the source code for CDE and Motif under a free license.

After January 5, 2006 ( effective February 2006 ), when the South Dakota Supreme Court granted his petition for early reinstatement of his license to practice law ( Scott's family opposed the reinstatement ) Janklow worked as an attorney.

* 1815: The first petition for the African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference to license women to preach is defeated.

In 1518, the 9th Earl presented a petition to the then Archbishop of Dublin ( William Rokeby ), for a license to found and endow a college at Maynooth: the College of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 1997 a group of full and part time KALW employees filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission to deny the renewal of KALW ’ s broadcast license, alleging that station management had covered up violations of hiring rules and had lied about required record keeping.

The change brought many protests from New York jazz fans, and a petition to the FCC to deny the station's license renewal, which was denied.

But a citizen's group organized to petition the FCC to consider XPN's unique service, and with a pledge from Penn to create positions for professional staff to run the station, the FCC allowed the license to renew.

On November 30, 2006, NBC Universal ( owners of rivals KVEA and KWHY-TV ) filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission to deny KAZA's license renewal, on basis that TV Azteca controlled 51. 6 % of the station ( above the permitted 33 % for foreign broadcasting groups ) via loans and other interests.

Many petition sites now have such safeguards to match real world processes such as local governments requiring protest groups to present petition signatures, plus their printed name, and a way to verify the signature ( either with a phone number or identification number via a driver's license or a passport ) to ensure that the signature is legitimate and not falsified by the protestors.