Jurisdiction Question: Must litigants wait for the Circuit Court's response to the impending en banc request, before certiorari may be filed? As the Petitioners filed for en banc hearing, upon issuance of the attached Orders; the Orders that are the basis for this Request for Extension of Time and Additional Pagination. The Petitioners want to know if they are premature in their efforts to file certiorari currently. In other words, should the 9th Circuit be allowed to answer the en banc before a writ of certiorari comes within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States? is requested of this Honorable Court.
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right and prevents de novo review