Despite such precedents, questions remain as to how to address certain key decision support issues.
However, Angela Eagle, the shadow business secretary, said the plans "risk setting a very worrying precedent" and questioned whether the government can ensure that any changes to pension laws are "safely ringfenced".
(She was eventually allowed to do so, though the Supreme Court ultimately threw out the precedent in question).
Now, it appears that far from being an anomaly, the episode has set a precedent, raising complex questions about how the Netherlands will regulate sensitive biomedical research in the future.
Underexposed intellectual precedent exists that questions this TTFL model, showing that at least in certain taxa, transcription is not essential for rhythmicity.
The election has arrived, anomalous and with scant precedent – and the question is, what does democracy look like, when it happens like this?
Now that we've learned that seven of nine Supreme Court justices have no problem with intruding into professional sports, rewriting their rules and creating a dangerous precedent, one important question remains: What kind of clubs do Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas swing?
At one point, with the spires of Moscow's skyline outside the courthouse window, Mr. Marks was drawn into a discussion of United States Supreme Court precedent on the question of whether civil damages could be sought under the RICO law even if the defendant had not been convicted of a criminal offense.
Prop 8 would be overturned and gay couples could marry, but the decision would have no effect beyond California -- and there would be no legal precedent on the question of whether such anti-gay measures are unconstitutional.
Justice Sotomayor tends to bear down on lawyers with fine-grained questions about precedent, while Justice Kagan is the master of the big picture.
