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court of appeals
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- 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
- any of the federal appellate courts, one in each of eleven judicial circuits, intermediate between the U.S. district courts and the Supreme Court
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