Rule 1.1401 Certiorari petition

If you believe a lower court, board, judge, or magistrate went beyond its authority or broke the law while making a decision, you can ask a higher court to review that decision. This type of request is called a certiorari action. You can file one of these actions when a specific law allows it, or when you believe the person or group making the decision had a judicial-type role and either overstepped their legal power or handled things improperly.

This rule basically gives people a way to challenge decisions made by officials or bodies who are supposed to act like judges, such as boards or magistrates. It is not about disagreeing with the outcome of a decision. Instead, it focuses on whether the decision-maker had the legal right to act the way they did in the first place.

If you win this type of case, the higher court can step in and correct the problem, often by canceling or changing the decision that was made improperly. This process gives people a way to hold lower authorities accountable when they may have acted outside their proper role.