Have your attorney appeal the case to the next higher level of jurisdiction. If the original decision was in violation of law or ethics - AND - this can be shown. It may be reversed or remanded by the higher court.
They have the right to complain to like the Supreme Court or Congress.
The Court rejected Plessy's arguments based on the Fourteenth Amendment, seeing no way in which the Louisiana statute violated it.
A court can enter a judgment notwithstanding the verdict when the weight of the evidence does not support the jury's verdict.
The judge hears evidence provided on both sides, and makes rulings on the law. In the case of bench trials, they also decide on the verdict. They run the court room.
Once a case of serious murder is done the jury decide on the verdict and the judge passes the capital punishment.
The judgment is affirmed.
The judge reached a verdict. He proceeded to dictate the memo.
It means that they have - AFFIRMED THE VERDICT OF THE TRIAL COURT.
It varies in different jurisdictions. In some states, the jury foreperson reads the verdict, in others the court clerk reads the verdict, and in still others, the judge reads the verdict.
They don't "reject" a lower court verdict per se, they can reverse a verdict and remand the case back to the lower court for corrective action based on points of law and rules of legal procedure.
It is called the verdict
The decision of the jury is called a verdict. The decision of a judge is called her ruling or holding.