"failed appeal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to discuss a court case, or other situation, in which an appeal attempt was unsuccessful. For example: "The plaintiff lost their case after their failed appeal to the court."
11.10am: More on Glenn Mulcaire's failed appeal at the high court.
"I was interested that, of all Mr. Reid's problems, getting a copy of Time unsliced was so prominent," Jim Kelly, the magazine's managing editor, said the other day, shortly after learning of the failed appeal.
On April 28th, after five years of legal proceedings and a failed appeal, Khouri, Imam, and Baki were found guilty of denigrating the Christian religion and were ordered to pay a fine of twenty thousand dollars.
A statue of Jefferson Davis has been removed from its place on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, after a failed appeal by a Confederate heritage group.
But for the Birmingham Six, their failed appeal in 1987 had secured for them one unexpected advantage; the notebooks in their case had been retrieved before the appeal, and retained by a separate police force, Devon and Cornwall.
Johnson-Thompson had recovered from a shaky start in the high jump on the opening day but this time there was to be no shot at redemption despite a failed appeal.
Luckily for Aereo, the company came out successful in that first case in New York City, with the broadcasters failing to get a preliminary injunction, and Aereo ultimately winning after failed appeals from the opposition.
Zaher, Nimr and a third minor at the time of his arrest, Dawood al-Marhoon are all currently being held in isolation following failed appeals, the group said.
"After an arbitrator's decision and two levels of failed appeals, Goldman's claim in bankruptcy court, which will further delay distribution to long-suffering customers, only impedes the realization of these ends".
It took 17 years to clear the debt, with failed appeals to the high court and the sale of Rembrandts, a Poussin and superfluous ancestral accommodation, including Hardwick Hall, also in Derbyshire.
The Stranger Beside Me is a cross-country epic of sex crime and headlong flight, bizarre trials and, finally, after a dozen failed appeals and last-minute confessions, the electric chair.
