Court Of Appeals Case Study

The federal courts: federal district courts, court of appeals, and Supreme Court hear very important and delicate cases. The court of appeals hear cases that can over turn a conviction of an innocent person and cases from defendants who are trying to get a sentence reduced, and making sure their sentencing is within the law. The court of appeals does not only hear criminal cases. They also hear cases making sure different agencies are abiding by the law. For example, the case EME Homer City Generation vs. Environmental Protection Agency which took place in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit, was making sure The EPA was abiding by the law and doing everything they could to maintain clean air. The judge’s
task in the court of appeals is to determine whether or not the law was applied correctly in the trial court.