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.
San Jose is a village in both Logan County, Illinois, United States and Mason County, Illinois, United States, founded in 1858. The population was 696 at the 2000 census. Although the town's name is derived from Spanish, it is pronounced /sæn ˈdʒoʊz/ .