appellate division

American  

noun

Law.

1. the section of a court that hears appeals, sometimes existing as an intermediate court between a trial court and a court of last resort.

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Example Sentences

As deployments multiply across the country, experts said they were watching what the appellate division and ultimately the Supreme Court will decide.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

The lawyers wrote that if the appellate division of the Manhattan Supreme Court considers denying their requested stay, it should allow for oral arguments on the issue.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2024

One of her professors, Derek Bok, set up an interview for her at the National Labor Relations Board, where she spent two years in its appellate division after she received her law degree in 1962.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

“We must meet a very high standard of connecting a given person to a given gun,” said Chrisellen Kolb, the chief of the appellate division for the U.S. attorney’s office in the District.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

The county court now has four court rooms, the supreme court ten, the appellate division one, and the appellate term one—in all sixteen.

From Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn by