For the publishers, if Google gives them anything at all, it creates a practical precedent, if not a legal precedent, that no one has the right to scan this material without their consent.
Yet by taking unilateral steps to tell law enforcement not to prioritise deportations in immigration cases, the president had hoped to establish powerful practical precedent that would make it harder for any Republican successor to unpick in future.
An important consequence of precedents' practical authority is this: since courts are bound to apply the law, and since earlier decisions have practical authority over the content of the law (i.e., over what is the law), later courts are bound to follow the decisions of earlier cases.
He explained that over time, as Mennonites stopped having to constantly defend their faith against persecutors, other more practical concerns took precedent.
So the Common Law's version of the doctrine of precedent does not inevitably flow from the fact that precedents have practical authority.
As a consequence the decision in an earlier case is not in itself regarded as a justification for reaching a decision in a later case.[1] By contrast, precedents have practical authority because they are regarded as partly constituting the law.
Rather than arguing for major changes to medical education and training, this paper explores well established precedents to offer practical suggestions for where a particular kind of literacy--eco-medical literacy--and related competencies could be naturally integrated into existing elements of medical education and training.
Yes, contemporary America is plagued with an inordinate amount of crime against persons and property, but the idea that a gun in every closet is therefore warranted and an indispensable element of public safety and security is wholly specious; it is a product of contemporary NRA and gun lobby propaganda, not historical precedent or even practical assessment.
For our younger colleagues Accounts readers who are considering starting an academic career and pondering what kind of risk to take in selecting their first projects (i.e., those at "life-forks")—it may be useful to glean some historical perspective on doing a long-term project with very little immediate practical consequence and very little precedent.
The most basic practical considerations, including other U.S. regulatory precedents, policy mechanisms to avoid regulation, and most importantly, the sheer number of potential EDCs, each bring the conventional paradigm into doubt.
