Therefore, if a lower court has ruled in an improper manner, or against legal precedent, that judgment will stand if not appealed – even if it might have been overturned on appeal.

Andrew appealed to the Pope against the bishop's measure.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

Anthony is appealed to against infectious diseases, particularly skin diseases.

Complaints against broadcasters, such as concerns around offensive programming, are dealt with by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ( CBSC ), an independent broadcast industry association, rather than by the CRTC, although CBSC decisions can be appealed to the CRTC if necessary.

Many thousands of the station's fans marched in the streets and on Parliament Hill against the decision, and the parent company of CHOI, Genex Corp., appealed the CRTC decision unsuccessfully to the Federal Court of Canada.

Bell appealed both requirements, citing that the rules do not apply to cable companies and that they constituted proactive rate regulation by the CRTC, which goes against government official policy direction that the regulator only intervene in markets after a competitive problem has been proven.

The graveyards in central London had no space, and fearing that he might have to be cremated, against his wishes, his widow appealed to his friends to see whether any of them knew of a church with space in its graveyard.

As the civil wars developed, the English Parliamentarians appealed to the Scots Covenanters for military aid against the King.

Their judgements are final and can only be appealed against if not in compliance with the rules.

The Convention habitually disregarded the terms of the constitution, and, when the elections went against them, appealed to the sword.

Megrahi appealed against his conviction but this was rejected in February 2002.

If a judge acts against precedent and the case is not appealed, the decision will stand.

These humiliations, the weakening of the empire in the face of Muslim expansion, and the inability of the emperor to protect the papal estates against the Lombards, made Pope Stephen II turn from Emperor Constantine V. He appealed to the Franks to protect his lands.

In this emergency, the emir of Damascus appealed to Saif al-Din ( a cousin of Gumushtigin ) of Mosul for assistance against Aleppo, but he refused, forcing the Syrians to request the aid of Saladin who complied.

Subsequent to his conviction, Eastman continuously appealed against his conviction, attempting to win a retrial on the basis that he was mentally unfit during his original trial.

However, when Clarke appealed to the High Court against the order, the judge ruled that the order was arbitrary and unjustified and quashed the order.

However, Silvertone appealed against the ruling, delaying the record for another year.

This was the turning point, because Charles Rembar appealed a restraining order against it all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court and won.

In his anger he appealed to force, and his Epistola ad Carolum V ( 18 February 1521 ) called on the emperor to take measures against Luther, an appeal soon answered by the Edict of Worms ( May 1521 ).

Around 426, Attaces, the king of the Alans, fell in battle against the Visigoths in Hispania, and most of the surviving Alans appealed to Gunderic.

e. g. Castritius, 2007 ), the Alan king, Attaces, was killed in battle against the Visigoths, and this branch of the Alans subsequently appealed to the Asding Vandal king Gunderic to accept the Alan crown.

In 868 Æthelred's brother-in-law, Burgred king of Mercia, appealed to him for help against the Vikings.

In the 2nd century BC the people of Massalia appealed to Rome for help against the Ligures.

Morrissey appealed against the verdict ; Marr did not.

His conviction was appealed and affirmed by the Arkansas Supreme Court.

After being found guilty and fined $ 10, plus $ 4 in court costs, Parks appealed her conviction and formally challenged the legality of racial segregation.

Scopes ' lawyers appealed, challenging the conviction on several grounds.

" Street appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, arguing the law was " overbroad, both on its face and as applied ," that the language was " vague and imprecise " and did not " clearly define the conduct which it forbids ", and that it unconstitutionally punished the destruction of an American flag, an act which Street contended " constitute expression protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Ponzi was released on bail as he appealed the state conviction, and fled to the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and launched the Charpon Land Syndicate (" Charpon " is an amalgam of his name ), offering investors in September 1925 tiny tracts of land, some under water, and promising 200 % returns in 60 days.

Ponzi appealed his conviction and was freed after posting a $ 1, 500 bond.

When the city council appealed to him to rescind that order, on the grounds that it would cause great hardship to women, children, the elderly, and others who bore no responsibility for the conduct of the war, Sherman sent a written response in which he sought to articulate his conviction that a lasting peace would be possible only if the Union were restored, and that he was therefore prepared to do all he could do to quash the rebellion:

Debs appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court.

His two-year prison sentence was never served ; the case was appealed and in 1969 a federal court set aside his conviction.

His lawyers appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, where they argued that the French court's denial of his appeal on a technicality ( rather than on the merits of the case ) constituted a violation of Papon's right to appeal his conviction.

Muller appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court and then to the U. S. Supreme Court, both of which upheld the constitutionality of the labor law and affirmed his conviction.

Griswold then appealed her conviction to the Supreme Court of the United States.

The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ), led by Morris Ernst, appealed her conviction and won a reversal, in which judge Learned Hand ruled that the pamphlet's main purpose was to " promote understanding ".

For example, in People v. Decina, 2 N. Y. 2d 133 ( 1956 ), the defendant, Emil Decina, appealed a conviction under § 1053-a of the New York Penal Code.

He appealed his conviction to the Arkansas Supreme Court, and that court reaffirmed the conviction.

Katsav appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court of Israel.

She appealed the conviction to the state appeals court, and the two-judge panel — one man, one woman — ruled against her.

Convicted and sentenced to six months in prison, he appealed his conviction and had it reversed on a technicality, only to be indicted, retried, convicted, and have the conviction overturned on a technicality again.

Kagan appealed the case to the California Supreme Court, but his conviction for manslaughter was upheld.