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lower court

NOUN
  1. any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court

How To Use lower court In A Sentence

  • An Ohio appellate court last week reversed a lower court ruling that the city's pernicious treatment of marijuana users was unconstitutional under state law.
  • The judge set aside the verdict of the lower court.
  • He suggested the justices could "begrudgingly" affirm the lower court "on alternative grounds" and take up some of the questions it avoided in its previous ruling. Justices Leery of Bush's Guantanamo Stance
  • The Ontario government, backed by other provincial governments, argued against the lower court rulings, saying the Metis existed as a community only after European settlers arrived in Canada.
  • The incident occurred 16 years ago but the officers had been acquitted by lower courts. Times, Sunday Times
  • On appeal, the Supreme Court affirmed the Lower Court's ruling, but not without some controversy.
  • A lower court affirmed the ruling last week, prompting an appeal by the companies involved. Times, Sunday Times
  • A lower court held the defendants liable for damages.
  • A lower court affirmed the ruling last week, prompting an appeal by the companies involved. Times, Sunday Times
  • Though flogging was restricted, the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled.
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