But it wasn't the best precedent.
The best precedent for both parties would be the Yankees' recent experience.
For those who seek to reduce the risks associated with climate change, it is ironic but true that the best precedent comes from a conservative icon.
In either case, or better yet both, the best precedent for such litigation is the legal battle for the name waged by former members of Bucks Fizz.
When it came to audacious missions – involving stealth flights over vast distances, maintaining the element of surprise till the last moment – Entebbe still seemed the best precedent.
The charge was always a stretch; the best precedent the government could come up with was a hundred and fifty years old, a case that arose in the context of the Union occupation of the Confederate-leaning city of Alexandria.
For Rocket boosters, this is no worry: Amazon, an e-commerce titan, has long sacrificed profits for growth.To assess the prospects of Rocket's individual companies, the best precedent investors have is Zalando.
Peter Cooper, of the Nashville Tennessean, suggested that the best precedent might be Janis Ian, whose song "At Seventeen" swept the charts in the seventies with its raw portrayal of adolescent angst.
Too much of a negative end to September though will not set the best precedent for next month and memories of the big falls of the past during October are etched in the back of the mind.
Instead, Mr Brown found in the 1983 inquiry by Lord Franks into the outbreak of the Falklands war what he called the "best precedent" for an investigation of the origins and conduct of the Iraq war, and the subsequent occupation of that country.What Mr Brown meant was that this latest inquiry would, like Franks's during the cold war, be held in private.
