This sentence from a wiki page of a court case grates. I have always seen/heard appeal a decision or appeal against a ruling. What does appeal from mean?
Tiffany appealed from these decisions to the Second Circuit. (source)
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The grammar in that sentence is incorrect. You appeal a ruling, or appeal a decision as you mentioned. (You don't appeal from.)
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And yet, strangely, a check on Google Books Ngram Viewer reveals appeal from.. to be roughly twice as popular as just appeal. I was astonished! books.google.com/ngrams/… Commented May 20, 2019 at 22:12
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@RonaldSole That IS surprising! I looked through a few of the snippets there and certainly some slightly different senses being used, i.e. where the appeal is described legalistically as being "taken from" a decision, which feels rather technical and lawyerly to me. That said, there are also examples that seem to be mostly in line with the OP's sense here. It sounds very wrong to my layman's ears, but I guess I won't edit the wikipedia page on that basis. Commented May 20, 2019 at 22:17
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1We're on the same side. The inclusion of from sounds utterly foreign to my ears too. Commented May 20, 2019 at 22:20
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+1 It seems someone has gone out of their way to correct the sentence on the Wiki page since I posted. Commented May 20, 2019 at 22:22