The federal bench, especially at the appellate level, is no place for on-the-job training.

"All along we thought our greatest chance of success was at the appellate level."

Ms. Brown would probably lose at the appellate level.

At the intermediate appellate level, four failed and one was not decided.

It is the first case of its kind to reach the appellate level.

Judgments are final and binding at the last appellate level.

In 1971, a statute modified this process at the appellate level.

"That won't even begin until these first cases start reaching the appellate level."

The number of cases affirmed at the appellate level illustrates this.

Currently only certain cases at the appellate level in the last sixty years are listed.