Does Overturned Mean Approved?

If someone in authority overturns a legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid. When the courts overturned his decision, he backed down.

What does an overturned decision mean?

of a court. : to disagree with a decision made earlier by a lower court The appeals court overturned the decision made by the trial court.

What happens when a court decision is overturned?

When a criminal conviction or sentence is overturned in a higher court, if the court reverses the lower court ruling entirely, then the defendant is free and cannot be recharged or retried. The conviction must be erased from his official criminal record.