Once the petition is submitted to the court, the parties must wait for their appeal to be placed on the courtâs docket. On average, an appeal takes about a year from start to finish. An appeal hearing is just that, a hearing. The judges will not call any witnesses or even deal directly with the parties of the case. Instead, they use the hearing as a chance to ask attorneys specific questions about the case and why they should decide in their favor.
After being moved to a pavilion near Independence Hall in 1976 (the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence), in 2003 the Liberty Bell was relocated to Liberty Bell Center in Independence National Historic Park, where millions of visitors view its famous crack each year.
25 down, 30 to go. The Goal: Visit all of the 1950 Liberty Bell replicas. According to the Liberty Bell Museum: In 1950, the United States Department of the Treasury assisted by several private companies selected Paccard Foundry in Annecy-le-Vieux, France, to cast 55 full-sized replicas of the Liberty Bell.