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.
Clayton is a city in Montgomery and Miami Counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 13,347 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1998, Clayton merged with the remainder of Montgomery County's Randolph Township.