The response there states: If you lost the case, you can appeal to the Court of Appeals. To start the appeal, you must file a Notice of Appeal within 30 days after the docketing date of the judgment order. The form can be found on the court's website. If you lost the case and the judgment was issued by a magistrate judge, you must file a motion for review in the Civil Division - not in the D.C. Court of Appeals. The motion for review must be filed within 14 days after entry of the magistrate judge's decision. See Super. Ct. Civ. R. 73. If you want to appeal an order in a small claims case, you must file an Application for an Allowance of Appeal within three days of the date of the court's decision. If the court's order was mailed , you have eight days to file. (This last section regarding appeal of a small claims decision may belong in its own small claims section, if the CAB, L&T, and Small Claims case types are going to categorized separately.)