What does the court of appeals do?
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I saw this interesting post on the Dallas Morning News blog this morning commenting about the election results. What interested me what the description of the function of an appellate court:
“Well, appeals courts not only check the work of trial courts, but they often have to make rulings that interpret the law. If a trial court is like an referee in a football game, think of the appeals court as instant replay and a member of the rules committee. So if they see something not addressed by the rules, they have a lot of latitude.”
