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.
Middletown is a city in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. The population was 535 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Burlington, IA–IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.