How to Use appellate in a Sentence

appellate

adjective
  • But this is just the first step in the appellate process.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The Court of Criminal Appeals is one of the busiest appellate courts in the nation.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The lawsuit Aguirre filed on behalf of Gordon has been pushed to the state appellate court.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Sheeran’s legal team will file their own appellate brief in the months to come.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
  • That marks the third appellate court in three years to find the mesothelioma plaintiffs bar claims are baseless.
    Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Any decision is likely to be appealed, first to the full appellate court and then to the Supreme Court.
    Abbie Vansickle and Pam Belluck, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • In reversing, the appellate court noted two flaws with the statute.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The appellate court’s ruling calls for a new trial, which has yet to be scheduled.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Nearly all of these disputes played out at the trial and appellate level and didn’t reach the Supreme Court.
    Zoe Tillman, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The appellate court’s action seemed to ease the pressure on Mr. Trump to try to tap his newfound Trump Media wealth.
    Joe Rennison, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The question for the appellate court was whether claiming the election was stolen and telling his supporters to go to the Capitol crossed that line.
    Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • An appellate court awarded each of the eight students $5,300 in damages this year.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The appellate court found that the village did host a festival, though not one about Myers.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The gun shop owner took his grievance to the 7th Circuit appellate court, which sided with Kendall.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2023
  • Caligrown then filed an appeal and that’s when the appellate court ruled in favor of the cannabis company.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2023
  • The ruling came after the California Supreme Court transferred the case back to the appellate court to reconsider the case in light of the new law.
    Deena Zaru, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • It is charged with reviewing and approving nominees to the state appellate court and the Supreme Court.
    Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Unlike the Supreme Court, the appellate court has agreed to move quickly on the immunity question.
    Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • After an appellate court and district court dismissed the case in October 2022, the plaintiffs filed a petition for the Supreme Court to hear the case.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • While their cases were dismissed again in 2021, now three appellate court judges have ruled in favor of Robson and Safechuck to see the case go in front of a jury in the lower courts.
    Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The appellate court found the ban was a reasonable measure to protect the public from future price-fixing.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Should the Supreme Court overturn the appellate court’s ruling, Syed would go back to being declared free and innocent.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But Donald Trump, the candidate, is not, an appellate court in the District of Columbia says.
    Dell Cameron, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But on Wednesday, an appellate court ruled in favor of the first responders, quashing the lawsuit.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • Both sides contend that the appellate court erred in its March ruling, but to opposite effects.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But before the appellate court judges could hear the case, Smith, the special counsel, asked the Supreme Court to leapfrog the appeals court and decide the immunity issue once and for all.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, the appellate team says that several blood-like stains on items including a pillow sham, the nightstand, a lampshade, turned out not to be blood.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Montgomery County school system spokesman Chris Cram noted in a statement that the appellate court returned the case to the district court to be dismissed.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Some said they were paid about $30 an hour and had no prior experience with appellate law.
    Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But these are very, very difficult issues to resolve, and the appellate courts have always had issues with them, as well as judges.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Dec. 2023

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