The Utah Court of Appeals works really hard but is so inundated with cases that they are simply overwhelmed. Because of this, if you aren't a public figure, a major corporation, or able to pay for a really expensive law firm specialized in appeals, then the whole apparatus is not going to meaningfully pay you any attention, or even pay attention to your case details. In my case, I was misquoted, and the details of the case were totally misrepresented and contradicted the actual record. The judge writing the opinion actually just copied and pasted what the other lawyer wrote, which was too bad because it contradicted the actual appellate record in obvious ways, like misquoting witness testimony, misquoting police reports, etc. In one of these copy and paste passages taken from the other attorney, it actually misquotes the United States Supreme Court. So that's pretty bad. The thing is, the judge authoring the opinion didn't make these errors on purpose, it's not because he had a bad intention, nor was it because of any lack of competence or qualification, none of that is responsible for the many blatant errors and misquotes, or direct copying and pasting of the other lawyer's brief (preserving it's errors), it's simply due to the fact the court of appeals is overwhelmingly swamped with way too much volume of cases coming in, and my case not being important enough to be given any kind of attention to detail, or any actual consideration of what was trying to be said. This is a sad fact, but there is no getting around this reality that an overwhelmed court simply can't spend the attention and time necessary to a case that involves a small number of unknown people, over a relatively small amount in controversy in the eyes of the court. For us though, it was traumatizing and we just have to live with the falsehoods and misquotes printed about us, because we were not important enough to be given anything beyond a fleeting glance. So if you aren't a public figure, or able to afford appeal specialists to represent you, you should be wary because it's actually possible for the filing of an appeal to do more harm than good, because you might end up having false quotes and untrue facts misstated about you and your family, because the court didn't have the time to actually check the citations by the other party for accuracy before simply copying, pasting, and printing them. Again, this isn't due to malice or incompetence from the court, they're good people trying their best, it's just a fact that they have too much work and too little time to do it. So "little" people or "little" cases will suffer the consequences of that.