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.
Lake Mills is a city in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,140 at the 2000 census. Lake Mills is the home of Terry Edward Branstad (born November 17, 1946) a four-term Republican Governor of Iowa, who served from 1983 to 1999, and the birthplace of Pulitzer Prize winning author Wallace Stegner. Lake Mills does not have a lake within city limits.