In looking not just at whether facts have changed but whether perceptions of facts have changed, this test arguably permits the Supreme Court to overrule precedent whenever the justices come to see things differently.
Regardless, Wittbrodt and colleagues have established an important precedent: whenever possible, clinical trials of ICU patients should incorporate long-term follow-up in survivors to assess the role that the treatment in the trial might have played in causing or mitigating the aftermath of critical illness.
"We should be creating a very serious precedent indeed if the government, whenever a certain number of workpeople were thrown out of employment as a result of the action of another body of workpeople, were to relieve them of their distress".
In failing to offer a number, though, they left the court with very little to do in the face of precedents requiring judges to look closely whenever the government draws distinctions among people based on race.
Would it not be ludicrous if the Pinochet precedent forced people as different as Messrs Castro and Kissinger to fear, whenever they were abroad, that some judge somewhere might demand their trial under some human-rights statute?Well, no.
The extreme measure drew national condemnation, but also set a precedent of using punitive measures against immigrants over the next century whenever the economy slumped, wars ended or election time heated up.
He was very proud of his American heritage, his grandson notes though his British half didn't mind pointing out, whenever appropriate, our system's reliance on English precedents like the Magna Carta and Parliament.
"Whenever I realize that anything in my screenplay has a precedent, it makes me feel worse," he said.
If Google does it right, and recent precedent doesn't guarantee this, these tablets could be the true iPad alternative whenever they hit the market.
The deal also could set a precedent that potentially exposes a bank to scrutiny — from the government and from shareholder lawsuits — whenever it builds a huge trading position that alters the market.
But Germans are deeply concerned that supporting big transfers of aid to troubled countries within the euro zone will create a precedent and the expectation in other countries that they, or their banks, will be bailed out whenever necessary.
