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Because if it's true and the government can make the case, then that's a very important precedent to establish through the Assange/Manning relationship.

"The US supreme court decision is an important precedent to advance marriage equality in Latin America," said Marcela Sánchez, director of the Bogotá based group Colombia Diversa.

If there are no further delays in his case, the Rwandan, Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a Hutu who was arrested in Texas, will soon become the first person turned over to a current international war crimes tribunal by the United States, an important precedent to American officials.

And that's an important precedent to the Supreme Court.

(For important precedents to Davidson here, see Sellars 1956 and Popper 1959: chapter 5. For further contemporary discussion, see Bonjour 1985; McDowell 1994; Brewer 1999; and Pryor 2005).

Tyler's assumption of complete presidential powers "set a hugely important precedent", according to a biographical sketch by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Mr. Stumberg and other defenders of the Massachusetts law say they also have an important legal precedent to lean on: a decision by Maryland's highest court in 1989 that the City of Baltimore had the right to pass a statute that withdrew its investments from South Africa.

The Principe Discos crew is in the midst of setting an important precedent for how to bring music like this to a wider audience, and hopefully other labels in the "world music" bubble will take notes.

But she continues to inflate his reputation by stressing his affinities with Rembrandt, Vermeer and de Hooch, when the more important precedents seem to be the lesser Pre-Raphaelites and 19th-century American genre painters like Eastman Johnson and William Sidney Mount.

They said the opinion overlooked important precedents, failed to engage the government's major arguments, used circular reasoning, substituted passion for analysis and did not even offer the best reasons for its own conclusions.

"It's an important precedent for judges to look at," Mr. McGee said.