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.
Spencer is a city in Clay County, Iowa, United States, at the confluence of the Little Sioux and Ocheyedan Rivers. The population was 11,317 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clay County. Spencer is famous as the home of the Clay County Fair, held annually in September AND DEWEY Readmore Books, the Library Cat . The fair averages over 300,000 visitors per year. Spencer was ranked 10th best place to live in the United States by Relocate-America. com's "America's Top 100 Places to Live for 2007."