While the earlier decision may be comity be given great weight in a later litigation and thus persuade the court to render a like decree, it is not res adjudicata and may not be pleaded as a defense.' 297 U.S., at 642, 56 S.Ct., at 647.
Increasingly, the courts began to act like legislators, handing down imperial-like decrees in a growing number of areas such as prayer, abortion and term limits.
These may sound like decrees from the glossy pages of a fashion magazine, but in fact, they are missives from Starbucks' new employee dress code.
Sessions, as VICE News reported last month, has made it pretty clear he doesn't like consent decrees.
Trump ran on an explicitly pro-cop platform, and has been installing tough-on-crime zealots like Sessions who doesn't like consent decrees, by the way in the top levels of his administration.
You cannot do it by means of legislation, like decreeing that poems are to be written in praise of a national leader.
BEIJING — One of China's largest hosts of Twitter-like microblogs decreed new punishments on Monday for users who post comments that its editors — and by extension, China's government censors — deem inappropriate.
In theological matters, the Pope is certainly free to issue any decree he likes and those who wish to follow his dictates are entitled to do so.
But: "If we always voted for what we'd like, we wouldn't get any development", decreed the chairman.
And he doesn't seem open to topics like who decrees the change or decides how to share the new cheese just around the corner.
While world leaders have passed resolutions and decrees like this proclamation by President Barack Obama, and communities like Boston hold events today, social media is promulgating AIDS awareness.
