An appellate court is also known as court of appeals and can be defined as a court of law of the judicial system that is empowered by law (jurisdiction) and saddled with the responsibility of hearing and reviewing an appeal of a trial-court or other lower court (tribunal).
This ultimately implies that, all appellate courts are empowered by law to review both questions of fact and questions of law. The appellate court can review questions of law as "De novo" or plenary review (legal error standard).
Hence, a person who is not satisfied with an appellate court’s decision can take the case to a higher court. This simply means that, when a person loses a court case decided by an appellate court, trial court or other lower courts (tribunal); he or she has the fundamental or basic rights to appeal the verdict in a federal appellate court of competent jurisdiction or even the supreme court.
1. The United States is in the Western Hemisphere (because it is west of the prime meridian) and also in the Northern Hemisphere (because it is north of the equator).
The United States has mainly had two consistent policies in the Middle-East from the 1980s to the present:
Supporting Israel: Israel is America's main ally in the region, and both Democrats and Republicans support Israel. The U.S. provides military contributions to that country, which is often in conflict with its neighbors. These contributions are crucial for Israel continuos military victories.
Supporting Saudi Arabia instead of Iran: since the founding of the Islamic Iranian Republic, The United States has been a enemy of Iran and viceversa, and Iran is at the same time a geopolitical enemy of Israel and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and Iran are in fact, often at war in other countries (proxy wars), and the U.S. always supports the former.
