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.
Lisbon is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, adjacent to the city of Mount Vernon. The population was 1,898 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.