Sentence examples for precedent bound from inspiring English sources

The tools for collaboration have been around for awhile, but we lawyers are "precedent bound" by training and by our nature.

Prior precedent binds the court to do its utmost to find acts of Congress constitutional: "every reasonable construction must be resorted to, in order to save a statute from unconstitutionality," according to Hooper v California.

In a 12 August 2007 New York Times review of Deathly Hallows, however, Christopher Hitchens praised Rowling for "unmooring" her "English school story" from literary precedents "bound up with dreams of wealth and class and snobbery", arguing that she had instead created "a world of youthful democracy and diversity".

So what precedent would have bound -- and yet, you took the same position in the en banc review.

On the D.C. Circuit, Scalia built a conservative record, while winning applause in legal circles for powerful, witty legal writing, which was often critical of the Supreme Court precedents he felt bound as a lower-court judge to follow.

He also described Roe as "binding precedent," although a Supreme Court Justice is far less bound by precedent than any lower-court judge.

The facts in a case may fall outside the ratio of an existing precedent, and thus the court is not bound by the precedent.

Brown will not be bound by precedent.

Popes are not bound by precedent on such matters.

KYL: But you felt you were bound by precedent?

The committee itself says it isn't bound by precedent.