appeals court
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4.4
- noun
- /əˈpilz kɔrt/
- Specialized
:
tribunal de apelación
- Last week, a federal appeals court decided to uphold the US TikTok ban.
- a federal appeals court
- cases before the appeals court
- an appeals court judge
Last week, a federal appeals court decided to uphold the US TikTok ban.
- Last week, a federal appeals court decided to uphold the US TikTok ban.
- You said it yourself, an appeals court is going to look at this.
- Well, I think he's based that on his appeals and that we went to the appeal court and didn't, didn't go for it.
- And as I described, you know, the appeals, the appeals court comes back and says, yeah, you can try them.
Examples
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The federal appeals court ruled that the evidence was insufficient to uphold the original conviction.
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She is asking the appeals court to refuse to consider Trump's appeal on her disqualification.
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The people on the appeals court serve also for life.
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At trial, there were two legal questions for the Appeals court to answer.
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The appeals court said the jury was right.
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Replacement law was struck down by a federal appeals court in 2002.
Academic text (2003) -
Ultimately, a U.S. district court judge and a federal appeals court rejected the challenge to the CMP.
Academic text (2006) -
The trial court sided with the HMO, but an appeals court reversed.
Academic text (2000) -
Accordingly, the appeals court saw no bar to affirming the district court's contempt declaration.
Academic text (1992) -
Shortly afterwards, Böhnhardt was sentenced to two years by the appeals court.
Synonyms
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5.3
A court that hears appeals and serious trials
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7.4
A court that reviews and can change decisions of lower courts
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5.0
A group of judges who review and can change decisions from lower courts
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5.7
A federal court that reviews cases from lower courts in a group of states
How Official
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3.2
- Specialized
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4.4
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3.2
- Formal
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7.4
- Specialized
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5.3
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4.2
- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a court that reviews appeals' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'appeal' (a request for review) + 'court' (a forum that decides cases). This compound/nominal modifier pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Appeals court comes from the idea of asking a higher court to 'look again' at a decision: appeals means to ask for a 'look again' and court is the place that decides. So, an appeals court is a court that 'reviews' lower court decisions and can change them.