Not exact matches
Answer: No,
sometimes every judge serving on a federal
appellate court finds it necessary to recuse themself from an appeal pending in their
court, and federal
appellate judges serving on a neighboring circuit will be assigned to sit by designation to resolve the appeal.
When a party takes a case to trial and does not get the result they had hoped for, they can
sometimes appeal the lower
court's decision to an
appellate court to have the case reviewed.
I would typically spend 4 - 8 hours preparing for a half day hearing, and
sometimes more depending on the subject matter, and would spend a similar or greater amount of time preparing for an oral argument of half an hour in an
appellate court plus time in
court waiting for my client's turn.
Sometimes, however, the
court will schedule an oral argument during which both you and your ex or her attorney have the right to stand up in front of the
appellate judges and argue your case.