The phrase "adverse precedent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a previous court decision that negatively impacts a current case or legal situation.
Example: "The court's ruling established an adverse precedent that could affect future cases involving similar issues."
Alternatives: "negative precedent" or "unfavorable precedent".
Australia was setting an "adverse precedent" sending refugees to Cambodia, which was not on "an equal footing with Australia in terms of rights, opportunities and international standards of integration," she said.
"We have seen time and again that filing cases in states where the odds are stacked against victory can create adverse precedent and interfere with momentum, making future cases harder to win," the leader of Lambda Legal, a a gay rights advocacy group, cautioned in a blog post outlining the group's plan for winning marriage equality after DOMA.
Though there is some adverse precedent on the books, e.g. Rosario v. Rockefeller, 410 U.S. 752 (1973)(upholding New York's exclusionary election rules for "preservation of the integrity of the electoral process"), closed primaries likely would not satisfy modern concepts requiring strict scrutiny of First Amendment violations.
Concerned about the adverse impact the precedent of Kelo would have on private rights in real property, and lobbied heavily by property rights activists who had been following the Kelo case vigilantly, states began to adopt stricter laws pertaining to their own use of eminent domain.
Legal precedent on material adverse changes is thin, and in both Harman's and Genesco's cases, the agreements seem to leave the buyers with few options.
"Broadly speaking, a precedent of deleting adverse information once a delinquent debt is paid would seriously impinge on the quality of data," a spokesman said.
To evaluate the scientific evidence on guggul for hyperlipidemia including expert opinion, folkloric precedent, history, pharmacology, kinetics/dynamics, interactions, adverse effects, toxicology, and dosing.
It denies victims their right to justice, and may set a dangerous precedent that will have an adverse impact on future stability and the rule of law".
He detailed the clinical history and outcomes of each of his patients on a set of cards and used this information to review adverse events systematically and to categorise their precedent errors.
[On Monday, the Andean Development Corporation approved long-term loans worth $75 million, Peru's government said.] But an adverse decision could be a serious blow to the project's image and set a precedent sought by environmentalists -- that multinational lending agencies, particularly those dependent on American money, ensure rigorous environmental standards before providing big loans.
"The precedent set by this decision, if upheld, would increase uncertainty significantly with a consequent adverse effect on foreign investment in Europe, making this decision a grievous self-inflicted wound for the European Union and its citizens".
