petition
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At Tyumen University in Siberia, some 2,000 students signed a petition against a move to make the school’s Wi-Fi accessible only through Max.
A petition with more than 3,300 signatures — more than half of them CSU students, staff or faculty — is circulating to call for an to end to the partnership.
From Los Angeles Times
Two of Gabriel’s cousins spoke at a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing to demand that the mother’s resentencing petition be denied.
From Los Angeles Times
In a state Supreme Court petition filed Friday, Bonta called the case an “unprecedented constitutional emergency” and called on the court to order an immediate stay on Bianco’s investigation.
From Los Angeles Times
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has already petitioned the country's Supreme Court against the law.
From BBC
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