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PRECEDENT - Legal principle, created by a court decision, which provides an example or authority for judges deciding similar issues later. ... To render precedents valid they must be founded in reason and justice; must have been made upon argument, and be the solemn decision of the court; and in order to give them...
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Precedent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In common law legal systems, a precedent or authority is a legal case establishing a principle or rule that a court or other judicial body utilizes when deciding subsequent cases with similar issu...
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suits involving issues of psych testing as they pertain to minorities ... On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in a unaminous decision that the "separate but equal" clause was unconsitutional because it violated the children's 14 amendment rights by separating them ... _Chief Justice Warren delivered the court's opinion,
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Senator Coburn and many other Republicans in Congress oppose the practice adopted by some Supreme Court justices of citing foreign legal precedents in their opinions.
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Those involved in the noncustodial parents' rights movement have often heard talk of legal precedents supporting every parent's and child's Civil Right to enjoy a parent-child relationship. These legal precedents demonstrate this clearly. ... If you intend to use these or any other precedents in your own case,
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The San Francisco Chronicle reported this weekend that Muhammad Ismail and his son Jaber Ismail, U.S. citizens, have been barred from re-entering the United States until they answer questions in Pakistan to the satisfaction of the FBI. ... « Interesting Legal Precedents, Vol. 1 · Main · Are there like any desis up there? »...
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In legal reasoning using precedents, however, the later court is free not to follow the earlier case by pointing to some difference in the facts between the two cases, even though those facts do not feature in the ratio of the earlier case.
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