Sentence examples for precedent existing from inspiring English sources
In Teague v. Lane, (1989), the court explained that "in general... a case announces a new rule when it breaks new ground... To put it differently, a case announces a new rule if the result was not dictated by precedent existing at the time......
On the other, ham-fisted policing might implicate the innocent in transactions to which they had not been a party, merely because they once handled suspect notes.Nevertheless, it is likely that the threat of terrorism and organised crime, and the precedent of existing methods for tracking money, will be strong counter-arguments in favour of tracking technology.
We floated this strategy initially as a potentially viable approach based on the precedent of existing programs that followed broadly similar designs, especially the International Census of Marine Microbes [ 5] and the Human Microbiome Project [ 6].
And so, in much the way that an activist American lawyer tries to squeeze a civil rights or labor precedent from the Supreme Court, Mental Disability Rights is trying to squeeze human rights precedents from existing international law.
Doubtless there are hundreds or thousands of allowances and precedents modifying existing law to the effect of delineating liability and responsibility in public areas, and the proposed New York law would just be an extension of that.
The facts in a case may fall outside the ratio of an existing precedent, and thus the court is not bound by the precedent.
If a decision merely applies existing precedent, it is retroactive.
The Solicitor General's lawyers press their arguments in a way that hews strictly to existing precedent.
The Teague decision said that a ruling is retroactive if it applies existing precedent, but not if it announces a new legal principle.
Scarcely any Democrats rose to Sotomayor's defense on the New Haven case, except to say that she had followed existing precedent.
The court on Wednesday treated the issue of capital punishment for child rape as a fresh question, not governed by any existing precedent.
