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.
Jud is a rural hamlet in LaMoure County, North Dakota, in the United States. The population was 76 at the 2000 census. Jud was founded in 1905 and named for county settler Judson LaMoure. It is located along unpaved 61st Street SE, 9 miles west of State highway 281 and 25 miles south of Interstate 95 in the midst of settled farmland and open plains.