Moreover, it sets a dangerous precedent, one that would allow a landlord to file a petition against any tenant the landlord felt had a "cluttered" apartment.
The decision, on a 2-to-1 vote by a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Massachusetts, sets up a frightening precedent, one that must be reversed by the courts, if not the Congress.
Now that we've learned that seven of nine Supreme Court justices have no problem with intruding into professional sports, rewriting their rules and creating a dangerous precedent, one important question remains: What kind of clubs do Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas swing?
This is a dangerous precedent, one that will undermine the obligation of the government to respect and protect human rights by giving corporations full reign to advance their own interests in the democratic - yet increasingly plutocratic - United States.
This upholds a harmful precedent, one that is especially detrimental to women who must consistently prove their value and push against narrow definitions of that value in any industry.
And if Love could persuade the government to embrace his scheme by issuing a compulsory licence for T-DM1, it would set an important precedent – one that could change the cosy relationship between rich countries and Big Pharma for ever.
Although the power plants would be under international nonproliferation safeguards, the offer, which requires congressional approval, is a break with precedent, one that some nonproliferation advocates regard as an endorsement of India as a legitimate nuclear-weapons state.
Perhaps only the visceral horror that lynching inspired gave Meeropol the necessary conviction to write a song with no precedent, one that required a new songwriting vocabulary.
It was an elegant royal precedent: one that might gracefully be followed.
This was not quite setting a precedent - one of Queen Victoria's daughters chose cremation in 1939 - but was said to reflect the princess's longstanding wish.
