Court of 7. The federal appeals court for the State of California is known formally as the Appeals. Court of 8. The federal appeals court for the State of New Jersey is known formally as the Appeals. 9. An appellate court can overturn the decision of a trial court based on error if it finds any of the following: a trial court made a mistake in applying the law, the jury's factual findings were not reasonably supported by the evidence or evidence was admitted that is highly prejudicial (as in the Yates case described on page 17). 10. The Original Jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court permits the filing of a case in the first instance in the Supreme Court in those types of cases expressly identified in Article III, Section of the U.S. Constitution. Most cases heard by the Supreme Court, however, require the parties to seek the permission from the Court to accept their case. The order by the U.S. Supreme Court that is issued to grant the parties a right of appellate review before the Supreme Court is called a Writ of