Sentence examples for established precedent from inspiring English sources

There's a well established precedent for this in the Old World.

The California court's holding was an unreasonable application of clearly established precedent.

Thomas Walker, who is the design director at Nike, said in a telephone interview that from a design standpoint the lack of an established precedent is liberating.

Russia's invasion of Georgia in 2008 violated established precedent in seeking to change by force borders of the former Soviet states.

Had he done so, the court said, that would have established precedent for his heirs to argue that they had inherited his salable image as property.

Especially in cases involving established precedent or an act of Congress, Mr. Waxman summarized, justices should act "on the narrowest possible grounds and only to the extent absolutely required".

Mr. McConnell has promised to follow established precedents in the area, and that is worth something.

The judges now hearing the challenge to them should, following established precedents, uphold the new law.

Established precedents support broad authority for Congress to regulate national commerce, and the health care market is unquestionably national in scope.

There is a precarious balance between uprooting or upholding established precedents like Roe v. Wade, or invalidating new legislation like the Affordable Care Act.

To Stevens, however, the decision is a textbook example of judicial restraint, deferring to the policy decisions of elected officials and following clearly established precedents.