The district appeals court does not hear a case in its entritiy, rather the justices review the case file and lawyer's arguments and hear a short in-person argument to ask questions and make a decision. This appeal is an appeal by right according to the Constitution, and anyone who appeals to their district's court of appeals will have their case reviewed. Here, the appeals courts in all five cases, still held in favor of the state's right to segregate.

The final step that a case can take after losing at the appeals level is the Supreme Court. In order to be heard by the Supreme Court, the NAACP filed a writ of certiorari, combining the five appealed cases from different districts and requesting that the Supreme Court review them as one large class action. The Supreme Court granted the review and the lawyers argued their case before the Supreme court....
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