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.
Mascoutah is a small town in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,659 at the 2000 census, but in 2006 the city performed a new census, which brought the population up to 6,800.