Appeals aren’t an infinite thing. Each appeal goes to a higher court, and eventually will reach the SCOTUS. And at any point, the respective appellate court can refuse to accept the appeal, essentially saying that they agree with the lower court’s ruling and leaving it in effect.
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UncleArthur@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What’s the point of such court cases when the loser cab simply appeal and appeal and appeal? It’s a stupid system.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
You are describing the courts like how they are supposed to work, not how they work. They are biased in favor of the powerful. Whether the law was applied correctly doesn’t matter so much as who is the company appealing, and perhaps what consideration they can provide under the table.
It’s a lot more corrupt than you would lead us to believe here, courts by and large think the republic is already dead in all but name, the higher up the chain you go the more that’s true.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There are limits to appeals. Each appeal up the chain requires that court to agree to hear the challenge of the appeal. Depending on the jurisdicion, I think the limit would be only 3 or 4 appeals with that last one being the Supreme Court of the United States. If the next higher court declines to hear the appeal, the lower courts ruling stands.