As a matter of precedent, the appeals court's decision accurately follows Smith v. Maryland.
The precedent the appeals court set for lower courts -- such as the one in Hawaii -- is to consider the spirit of the order, not merely the letter, by examining what White House officials say they hope to accomplish with it.
But the American's victory at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) could set a precedent for appeals against the BOA and other national Olympic bodies that impose their own stricter bans.
It was not a precedent that appealed to Haas, who says he preferred the kind of precedent set by Solomon on another one of his jailhouse panels — the mother who loved the baby most let go.
Legal experts said the law offering asylum to victims of domestic abuse and gang violence is well established in precedents that appeals court judges may be loath to set aside, despite the authority of the attorney general to guide asylum rules.
Although the Supreme Court declined at the time to review that decision, it remains binding as precedent on the appeals court, which is why the appeals court used nondelegation rather than statutory analysis to reach the result of invalidating the 1997 standards.
Overcoming resistance from her boss (Alfred Molina), an ICE lawyer (Common) and a by-the-book judge (Alfre Woodard), Wood wins a precedent-setting appeal that establishes political activity on behalf of women as grounds for asylum.
Our disposition makes it appropriate to address the approach taken by this substantial body of court of appeals precedent.
Interpreting the Oregon v. Elstad precedent, the federal appeals court in Denver said the gun could not be introduced as evidence.
This is not without precedent: A federal appeals court ruling against the FCC in April quashed the FCC's authority as it attempted to enforce net neutrality principles against Comcast for discriminating against file sharing.
