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.
Bondurant is a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,846 at the 2000 census; a special census taken in 2006 counted 2,951 residents. It is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.