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.
Chatfield is a city in Fillmore and Olmsted counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 2,394 at the 2000 census. The city's area is split almost equally between the two counties.