And we have resolved inconsistent court interpretations since 1966 by clarifying the factors we consider in deciding what is "feasible and prudent".
According to Mark Conrad, a professor of legal and ethical studies at Fordham, the court took on the case partly to prevent court shopping, whereby plaintiffs take advantage of inconsistent lower court rulings by filing suits where they feel they have the best chance of winning.
But when Pataki was directed by Bush to attack John McCain's names, the New York governor felt he had to try to knock off some of Forbes's signatures as well, lest he seem inconsistent in court.
The extent to which these legal, social, and treatment recommendations are implemented is not known but are inconsistent across DTC courts in the United States (Rempel 2005; Schaffer 2006) and do not address systemic health barriers or impacts.
When United States Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart tried to rein in the courts' inconsistent definitions of obscenity and pornography, he famously skirted an attempt to provide a concrete definition of what's obscene and instead declared "I know it when I see it".
What is more, the district court expressly invites actions for contempt sanctions if the military exercises detention authority in a manner inconsistent with the court's deeply flawed understanding of that authority".
But whether the school adopts an actual quota or simply awards a race-based bonus consistent with such a quota, its admissions policy is inconsistent with this court's precedents.
In Morocco, for instance, lawyers have started challenging inconsistent and arbitrary court decisions on certain immigration-related issues over the past years.
This is arguably inconsistent with the court's traditional role in judicial review which is to avoid examining the merits of administrative decisions and only scrutinize them for compliance with the law.
For example, the ruling is directly inconsistent, as the district court acknowledges, with the appeals court ruling on exactly this topic that was made earlier.
