How to Use on appeal in a Sentence

on appeal

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  • But Rilee said the issue will be settled by the state Supreme Court on appeal.
    Holly Ramer, Twin Cities, 3 May 2024
  • The verdict was affirmed on appeal, but the death sentence was tossed out.
    Longreads, 2 May 2024
  • Ali remains free while his conviction is on appeal. 1968 — The Night of Speed.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • That case is on appeal currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • No honest analyst thinks this case is a slam dunk on appeal.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The state’s attorney’s office declined to comment while the case was on appeal.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Druss said Oakbrook Terrace’s brief is due 35 days after the record on appeal is filed with the appellate court.
    Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • That decision was overturned on appeal in 2022, awarding the artist the trademark.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Cruz was originally called safe, but the call was reversed on appeal.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
  • The film documents how the residents are fought back through the courts and eventually won on appeal.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The dismissal was upheld on appeal, and attempts by Mattel to get the lawsuit heard by the Supreme Court were unsuccessful.
    Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • Once a case is on appeal, the trial judge loses jurisdiction over it.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • His conviction was upheld on appeal, and the Missouri Supreme Court declined to review it last month.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
  • However, he was overruled on appeal, leading to the Supreme Court review.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • The handling of the evidence, over the course of the entire investigation, was also raised on appeal.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Without such a guideline to point to, the government's case would likely have collapsed, Chapman said, adding that the issue will be raised on appeal.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2024
  • That’s a major issue with Texas cases, which are funneled on appeal to the 5th Circuit, sitting in New Orleans.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • To repeat, when a case is on appeal, jurisdiction over it is transferred to the appellate court, which means the district-court judge — here, Judge Tanya Chutkan — cannot act on it.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
  • An 8th Circuit ruling that struck down Arkansas’s ban is on appeal.
    Ann Marimow, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The first led to her conviction and a death sentence, which was overturned on appeal because her lawyer disappeared before the verdict.
    Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • But the lawsuits are on appeal as judges have held that the school is covered by governmental immunity.
    Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The case became moot while on appeal because Congress repealed the vaccine mandate, his attorney in the case, Donald Falk, said.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Shortly after taking office, the justice cast the deciding vote to wipe out that verdict on appeal.
    Derek Clinger, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The judge ruled that there was probable cause and ordered her held for one more day; on appeal, the measure was reduced to five days’ house arrest, with a ban on using social media.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
  • For example, in the [Harvey] Weinstein case this is a major issue on appeal.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Dec. 2023
  • That lawsuit was thrown out by a federal judge earlier last year and is currently on appeal.
    Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Defense lawyers have instead argued that the decision in the case was fundamentally flawed and is bound to be overturned on appeal.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • That request was rejected by a district judge, and rejected again on appeal.
    Julian Mark, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
  • The case was initially dismissed but that decision was overturned on appeal.
    Tales Azzoni, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • That was reduced to six points on appeal but Everton could face further punishment for more breaches.
    James Robson, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024

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