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Conservation groups have petitioned for federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Investors have petitioned the Supreme Court, seeking a hearing in the event of Byju's challenging the tribunal's decision.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2024

By reducing interactions between bears and humans, grizzlies have recovered so much in some ecosystems that states around Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park have petitioned to delist the bear in those zones.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Equinor and BP have petitioned state authorities to renegotiate their power contracts.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

It has already been stated that we have petitioned Congress the past winter to so amend the Constitution as to prohibit disfranchisement on account of sex.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady