Practicing in the Appellate Courts is for the purpose of reviewing trial court judgments to correct of errors committed by the trial court, development of the law, achieve a uniform approach across courts, and the pursuit of justice, more generally. Appellate courts are not a forum to make a new case, but instead they determine if the rulings and judgment of the court below were made correctly.
Hoonah is a Tlingit community on Chichagof Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 860. Its name means "village by the cliff" in the Tlingit language.