on appeal

phrase

—when the judgment of a lower court on a case is reviewed by a higher court

Her conviction was reversed on appeal.

Examples of on appeal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

However, on appeal, that conviction was overturned in 2001 due to ineffective assistance of counsel. — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026

Under its rules, a human clinician must review every denial, and a contractor loses its payment for a case when a patient wins on appeal. — Lars Hanson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026

Keating ended up serving less than five years after that conviction and a federal one were overturned on appeal. — Laya Neelakandan,dan Mangan, CNBC, 9 Nov. 2026

In hundreds more cases, judges failed to appoint a lawyer at all, held hearings where petitioners went unrepresented or allowed a lawyer to drop a case, leaving the client stranded on appeal. — Samantha Melamed, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2026

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