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.
Lower Brule is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lyman County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 599 at the 2000 census. This community is located within the Lower Brule Indian Reservation.