Sentence examples for precedent about from inspiring English sources
"There's not a definitive legal precedent about this.
In dissent, Justice Alito wrote that "the court's decision creates a precedent about precedent that may have greater precedential effect than the dubious decisions on which it relies".
It was, said Theroux, "the foundation of Naipaul's genius" - a novel without precedent, about a little man from Trinidad with big dreams.
That one carried a life sentence; it would also have set a dangerous precedent about what it means to harm the United States and to have a free press.
The case was dropped during the trial, but it set a precedent about how large an online audience could be judged to be and which jurisdiction cases can be brought in.
Venice, abandoning the imperial name early in the 12th century, set a precedent about 1192 in the issue of the larger silver grosso or matapan, using the henceforth familiar types of Christ on the reverse and, obverse, St. Mark presenting the gonfalon (the banner of the republic) to the doge.
As Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once warned, any new claim of executive power, once validated into precedent, 'lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.
Given this highly muddled decision, Justice Kagan is right to advise trial judges and others to follow earlier precedents about forensic evidence.
WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
All of this will continue to play out next year, perhaps with the passage of new laws regulating these companies, and with legal decisions that set precedents about how the companies, and their users, may behave.
Jody Armour, a professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, said legal precedents about the power of the police to seize such videos are still emerging as new technology is developed.
