The phrase "decisional law" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to law established by the decisions of judges in court cases, as opposed to statutes or regulations.
Example: "The court's ruling was based on decisional law that had been established in previous cases."
Alternatives: "case law" or "judicial precedent."
"They have blatantly misrepresented decisional law and key aspects of their vector-control program," he said.
The opinion, McConnell v. Anderson, concluded: "We know of no constitutional fiat or binding principle of decisional law which requires an employer to accede to such extravagant demands".
The issue arose again in 1997, at the Capital District O.T.B. in Albany, when the attorney general reiterated, "Under our opinion and decisional law, a contract for a fixed term is unauthorized".
It is true that, judicial construct though it is, the state secrets doctrine has become embedded in our controlling decisional law.
Prior to that time, statutes and decisional law precluded the biological father from obtaining such status, distinguishing them from fathers who were married to the child's mother at the time of conception.
In a 17-page opinion that carefully analyzes the applicable statutes and decisional law, the New York Solicitor General advises that while New York statutory law does not expressly require that two people be of the opposite sex to obtain a marriage license, it is her view that "the Legislature did not intend to authorize same-sex marriage".
This case transported the federal constitutional ideal of the right to decisional privacy into state law, and characterized the right of a comatose woman's family to refuse life-saving treatment on her behalf as a "right to privacy" (Jonsen 1998).
And so, until such a time as the law changes, the theory of decisional capacity will remain in a state of tension: torn between new clinical developments and empirical research that increasingly call for the inclusion of values and emotion in the theory of capacity, and the cognitive inertia of the law (Appelbaum 1998).
This last question has to do with what is commonly called "decisional capacity," a central concept in health care law and ethics, and increasingly an independent topic of philosophical inquiry.
Of special interest for present purposes are the relationships between decisional capacity and psychiatric disorders and between health law and practical ethics.
Inspired by subsequent developments in U.S. law, a distinction can be made between (1) constitutional (or decisional) privacy and (2) tort (or informational) privacy (DeCew 1997).
