Sentence examples for a precedent-setting case from inspiring English sources

"This appears to be a precedent-setting case," Mr. Walters said.

In a precedent-setting case, more than 100 doctors employed by the clinic's H.M.O.

It's a precedent-setting case," said Jeffrey N. Gibbs, a lawyer in Washington who specializes in food and drug law.

The verdict was a blow to the office of Robert T. Johnson, the Bronx district attorney, in what had been viewed as a precedent-setting case.

"I always felt ImClone would be a precedent-setting case," said Robert Toth Jr., senior portfolio manager at EGM Capital in San Francisco.

"We kind of had everything going for us on this case and really it required it because this was a precedent-setting case".

Assuming an active role as guardian, he represented the Stravinsky Estate in a precedent-setting suit contesting the late author's will and the Mitchell Estate in a case involving a parody of "Gone With the Wind".

A potentially precedent-setting case was initiated by a coffee-shop owner from Maastricht, a southern Dutch city, against an earlier decision by the city's mayor to impose a membership scheme for residents only.

This is an important distinction to make when talking about such an important precedent-setting case.

"The whole thing could be dropped altogether because of insufficient evidence or because they are feeling weak about their legal theories," he said, "or this could move forward into an important, precedent-setting case".

One earlier decision in a child pornography case, though the situations are not particularly analogous, is more lucid and describes its reasoning in more detail, something that may be important in a potentially major precedent-setting case.