As Justice Elena Kagan said yesterday to Burt Rein, the attorney for the petitioner, "that's a big, new power that you are giving us...the power now to decide whether racial discrimination has been solved.
The petitioner has to convince the same people who previously held him to be guilty that he is innocent a particularly onerous task when he has no access to the information that led to his inclusion on the list in the first place.
As soon as a petitioner is admitted to one of the centres, the representative office in Beijing of that person's home province is notified.
At least one such petitioner has even set himself on fire.
"It is run like a detention centre," says Zheng Yuming, a petitioner from the city of Tianjin who was taken to Majialou in November.
The lead petitioner in yesterday's case, Graydon Comstock, was convicted of buying child pornography and sentenced to 37 months in prison.
But the attorney for the petitioner insisted that the ICWA doesn't apply since "there is no Indian family" that the adoption by the Capobiancos was breaking up.
Her petitioner explained a dictator had "$150million (One hundred and fifty million United States Dollars)" ready to be removed from the country if only Mrs Babbage would help by providing her bank account and social security number.A quick Google search threw up several blog entries and pictures from the past few months with different stamps and letters, all originating from Tanzania.
The case once known as Warner v Gross is now called Glossip v Gross, named for Richard Glossip, another Oklahoma prisoner and the new lead petitioner.
Even the petitioner raises no hackles at the pretextual nature of his traffic stop.
"[W]hat history does exist," the petitioner argues, "shows that using subsidies to induce state action was consciously adopted by the Senate and clearly understood by ACA architects".
