When the legality of the Certificates of Claim system was challenged in 1903 on the basis that the agreements made by the chiefs breached the rights of their community members, the Appeals Court upheld their validity.
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 one hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.
After a traineeship at the Supreme Provincial Court of Appeal in Koblenz he finished his second Staatsexamen specialising on European law and international relations.
However, when the legality of the Certificates of Claim system was challenged in 1903 on the basis that the agreements made by the chiefs breached the rights of their community members, the Appeals Court upheld the validity of the certificates, ruling that that title arose from a grant by the Crown’s representative, not from any agreements made by the chiefs.
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In her career, Mukhtar has been many firsts: she is the first female lawyer from Northern Nigeria, first female judge of the High Court in Kano State judiciary, the first female justice of the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria.
The term companion cases refers to a group of two or more cases which are consolidated by an appellate court while on appeal and are decided together because they concern one or more common legal issues.
It also serves as an intermediate appellate court, hearing appeals on the record from the Court of Common Pleas, Family Court, and most state administrative agencies.
Discretionary review is the authority of appellate courts to decide which appeals they will consider from among the cases submitted to them.
Prior to coming to work for the White House, Silverberg served as a law clerk, first to Appellate Court Judge David B. Sentelle, and later to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Court of Exchequer Chamber, an ancient English appellate court that ceased to exist independently in the late nineteenth century
Doug Gabbard, II is a judge on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, the intermediate appellate court in the state of Oklahoma.
The main judivial structure in Gilgit–Baltistan comprises a High Court, composed of three judges selected by the government, supported by the Supreme Appellate Court.
Illinois law gives every person convicted in a criminal trial a right of review by writ of error; but it is necessary for the defendant to furnish the appellate court with a bill of exceptions or report of proceedings at the trial certified by the trial judge, and it is sometimes impossible to prepare such documents without a stenographic transcript of the trial proceedings, which are furnished free only to indigent defendants sentenced to death.
Joseph M. McLaughlin (b. 1933), American academic and U.S. federal appellate court judge
Located in Jerusalem, the Supreme Court acts as a further appellate court, hearing both criminal and civil cases.
Keith Rapp is a judge on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, the intermediate appellate court in the state of Oklahoma.
In 1996, during her second term on the appellate court, Marilyn Jean Kelly won election to the Michigan Supreme Court.
Lynn Garland's grandfather, Samuel Irving Rosenman, was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (a trial-level court of general jurisdiction rather than an appellate court) and a special counsel to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
However, the Covenant provided that for 15 years following the creation of a commonwealth appellate court, appeals of that court's decisions would go to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, just as if the decision was rendered by the District Court.
The palaces of Wrangel, Hessenstein, and Schering Rosenhane are today used by Svea Hovrätt, the appellate court for Svealand, while the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court reside in the palaces of Bonde and Stenbock respectively.
For his part, Barnes became a Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles, assistant attorney general during the Eisenhower Administration, and eventually a Federal Appellate Court Judge and President of the Federal Bar Association.