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☆ court of appeals

  1. a state court to which appeals are taken from the trial courts: usually it is an intermediate appellate court, but in several states it is the final appellate court
  2. any of the federal appellate courts, one in each of eleven judicial circuits, intermediate between the U.S. district courts and the Supreme Court

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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