The Third Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing an appeal from the plan.

Examples of such courts include the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals ( which existed from 1844 to 1947 ), the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors ( which has been renamed the Connecticut Supreme Court ), the Kentucky Court of Errors ( renamed the Kentucky Supreme Court ), and the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals ( since renamed the Supreme Court of Mississippi ).

Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

Responsible to the governor, town councils known as Cabildo administered local municipalities, the most important of which was Santiago, which was the seat of a Royal Appeals Court () from 1609 until the end of colonial rule.

An example of a Court's treatment of frivolous arguments is found in the case of Crain v. Commissioner, 737 F. 2d 1417 ( 1984 ), from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit:

Appeals from the Court of Appeal are sent to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, which essentially is the same body as the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.

" In Simpson v. Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Supreme Court's holding in the Marsh case meant that the " Chesterfield County could constitutionally exclude Cynthia Simpson, a Wiccan priestess, from leading its legislative prayers, because her faith was not ' in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

The Federal Court reviews decisions referred from the Court of Appeals ; it has original jurisdiction in constitutional matters and in disputes between states or between the federal government and a state.

For example, in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. ( 2009 ), the Court ruled that a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia had to recuse himself from a case involving a major contributor to his campaign for election to that court.

After the sanctions escalated from $ 100 to $ 5500 and remained unpaid, the Court of Appeals issued an order, now referred to as a Mack Bar, preventing any further filings from being accepted by the court.

Lessig refocused the Plaintiffs ' brief to emphasize the Copyright clause restriction, as well as the First Amendment argument from the Appeals case.

After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard Posner, at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois and another year for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court.

In 1984, the PNDC created a National Appeals Tribunal to hear appeals from the public tribunals, changed the Citizens ' Vetting Committee into the Office of Revenue Collection and replaced the system of defense committees with Committees for the Defense of the Revolution.

Appeals from courts of limited jurisdiction are frequently sent to state trial courts of general jurisdiction rather than to an appellate court.

Citing the precedent of the 2002 ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Karlton issued an Order stating that, upon proper motion, he would enjoin the school district defendants from continuing their practices of leading children in pledging allegiance to " one Nation under God ".

Appeals from first-instance decisions of the Court lie to Appeals Division, which includes the Full Court of the Family court.

In the United States, for example, if a Social Security Disability Insurance claimant is found " not disabled " ( and, therefore, ineligible for benefits ) by an Administrative Law Judge ( ALJ ) and the claimant appeals, both the Appeals Council ( the body within the Social Security Administration that hears appeals from decisions of ALJs ) and the Federal courts ( which, in this type of case, will normally hear an appeal only after the claimant has exhausted all administrative remedies ) will look to see whether the administrative law judge's decision was supported by " substantial evidence " or not.

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The United States federal courts are divided into twelve regional circuits, each with a circuit court of appeals ( plus a thirteenth, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears appeals in patent cases and cases against the federal government, without geographic limitation ).

The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to as " Mid-Michigan ", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, business, and high-tech manufacturing, including two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, two law schools, including the nation's largest law school ( Thomas M. Cooley Law School ), a Big Ten Conference university ( Michigan State ), the Michigan State Capitol, the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, a federal court, the Library of Michigan and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies.

Thus, a federal district court that falls within the geographic boundaries of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals is bound by rulings of the Third Circuit Court, but not by rulings in the Ninth Circuit, since the Circuit Courts of Appeals have jurisdiction defined by geography.

In the United States, which uses a common law system in its state courts and to a lesser extent in its federal courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has stated:

In cases addressing other encryption software, however, two federal appeals courts have established the rule that cryptographic software source code is speech protected by the First Amendment ( the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Bernstein case and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Junger case ).

Three Texas voters challenged the election in a federal court in Dallas and then appealed the decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, where it was dismissed.

A federal district court's ruling that only González's father, and not his extended relatives, could petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

On November 12, 2010, in a unanimous decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston affirmed a ruling by a New Hampshire lower federal court which found that the pledge's reference to God doesn't violate students ' rights.

:* Carlos Lucero, federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

In California, the power of the intermediate Courts of Appeal over the Superior Courts is quite different from the power of the Courts of Appeals of the federal government over the federal district courts.

Other originalists, including Michael W. McConnell, a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in his article " Originalism and the Desegregation Decisions ," argue that the Radical Reconstructionists who spearheaded the 14th Amendment were in favor of desegregated southern schools.

Moreover, because the U. S. Supreme Court chooses to hear fewer than 100 of the more than 10, 000 cases filed with it annually, the United States Courts of Appeals serve as the final arbiter on most federal cases.

Generally, a final ruling by a district court in either a civil or a criminal case can be appealed to the United States court of appeals in the federal judicial circuit in which the district court is located, except that some district court rulings involving patents and certain other specialized matters must be appealed instead to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and in a very few cases the appeal may be taken directly to the United States Supreme Court.

:: Example: The Federal Courts of Appeals have reached the same conclusion in applying the federal hearsay rule.

It was formed in 1842 and named for John Boyle ( 1774 – 1835 ), a U. S. Representative, chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and later federal judge for the District of Kentucky.

He became a progressive voice in Alabama politics during the 1960s and was appointed to a federal judgeship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Mckenzie's claim-jumping scheme was eventually stopped by the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals | Court of Appeals in Washington, D. C.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

* United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

* District of Columbia Court of Appeals

* Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals

In response to an EDF suit, the U. S. District Court of Appeals in 1971 ordered the EPA to begin the de-registration procedure for DDT.

The cases were consolidated, and in 1973 the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the EPA had acted properly in banning DDT.

* Douglas H. Ginsburg, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Ronald Reagan's nominee to the United States Supreme Court

In June 2006, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the rule and sent it back to the agency to be reviewed.

Because state supreme courts generally hear only appeals, some courts have names which directly indicate their functionin the states of New York and Maryland, and in the District of Columbia, the highest court is called the " Court of Appeals ".

Maryland's jury trial courts are called " Circuit Courts " ( non-jury trials are usually conducted by the " District Courts ," whose decisions may be appealed to the Circuit Courts ), and the intermediate appellate court is called the " Court of Special Appeals ".

The claim that secular humanism could be considered a religion for legal purposes was examined by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Peloza v. Capistrano School District, 37 F. 3d 517 ( 9th Cir.

U. S. Courts of Appeals, in Immediato v. Rye Neck School District, Herndon v. Chapel Hill, and Steirer v. Bethlehem School District, have ruled that the use of community service as a high school graduation requirement did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment.

On December 22, 2006, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated its unanimous August 2006 opinion in Murphy v. Internal Revenue Service and United States.

Appeals filed prior to that date are heard by the Appellate Division of the District Court.

The plaintiffs appealed the decision of the district court to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, filing their initial brief on May 22, 2000, and arguing the case on October 5 of the same year in front of a three-judge panel.

The District Court and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Louisiana, finding that its actual purpose in enacting the statute was to promote the religious doctrine of " creation science.

On February 25, 2011, public defender James Klein filed an appeal of Guandique's conviction with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

On March 11, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the words " under God " in the Pledge of Allegiance in the case of Newdow v. Rio Linda Union School District.

The lawsuit was dismissed from a District Court ; the decision was upheld by the Court of Appeals on August 22, 2008.