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.
Mandan is a city in Morton County, North Dakota in the United States. It is the county seat of Morton County. It is a core city of the Bismarck-Mandan Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 16,718 at the 2000 census. Mandan was founded in 1879 and became the county seat in 1881. Mandan is located just across the Missouri River from Bismarck. Mandan is home to the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives