appellate court
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7.4
- noun
- /əˈpɛlɪt kɔrt/
- Specialized
:
tribunal de apelación
- The appellate court reversed and granted a new trial, and the instant court affirmed the appellate court and again found for the plaintiff.
- federal appellate court
- state appellate court
- appellate court decision
They've got instructions that have been either affirmed or blessed, if you will, by the appellate courts.
- They've got instructions that have been either affirmed or blessed, if you will, by the appellate courts.
- And the fact that a, that an appellate court overturns A verdict later on, too late, Yeah.
- The law changes and the appellate courts are there for that very purpose, to make sure that that errors are corrected.
- I mean, you've got thousands of judges at local level, state levels, federal district levels, and, you know, appellate courts.
- But but the and and the appellate court essentially said, I don't know why you married this person having had them make you sign this.
Examples
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The appellate court ruled that stolen jewelry could have meant any other stolen jewelry... from any other robbery and gave the police a license to search for anything they felt like.
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Many of the persuasive principles used in appeals to trial court judges work in appellate courts as well.
Academic text (2002) -
In this case, neither the trial court nor the appellate court applied the traditional formula.
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Sir, my father is an appellate court judge in the Sixth District of the state of Missouri.
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Their opinions will be published on the Internet just as the appellate courts publish their opinions.
Academic text (2001) -
The fact that the state and federal appellate courts have not reversed is inexplicable.
Academic text (2011) -
The appellate court held in favor of Dawson and ruled that the warrant was invalid.
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The appellate court ruled... that since there was no valid trial record... the court could not properly hear the appeal and ordered that Beamer be retried.
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In the Michigan case, the full thirteen-judge appellate court reheard the case and reversed the three-judge panel's 1995 decision.
Academic text (1997) -
The appellate court ruled that the evidence presented was insufficient to uphold the lower court's decision.
Synonyms
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4.4
A court that reviews and decides on cases from lower courts
46
4.5
The top group of judges in a country or state that hears the most important cases and appeals
42
5.3
A court that hears appeals and serious trials
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5.0
A group of judges who review and can change decisions from lower courts
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3.2
The highest court in a country or state that reviews lower court decisions
8
4.2
The highest group of judges in a U.S. state who decide appeals about state law
1
5.7
A federal court that reviews cases from lower courts in a group of states
How High
12
3.2
- Specialized
21
7.4
- Specialized
27
3.6
- Specialized
9
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'appellate' (= connected to the appeals process) combined with 'court' straightforwardly yields 'a court that hears appeals/reviews lower-court decisions'; a learner who knows both constituents can derive this meaning. The structure Adj + Noun is compositional and parallels equivalent terms in many languages, so the sense is immediately predictable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Appellate court comes from the idea of an appeal — asking a higher court to 'look again' at a decision. So an appellate court is a court that reviews and can change the decision of a lower court.