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"This is a precedent-setting regulatory action by the F.D.A.," said Joseph Mendelson, legal director of the Center for Food Safety, the Washington group that is leading the action.

It is a precedent-setting, tone-setting action which reveals Britain's disastrously dysfunctional relationship with predators.

For weeks we have been on alert for supposedly precedent-setting rulings on affirmative action, voting rights and of course same-sex marriage.

The company that received the precedent-setting letter, called a No Action Letter, was TurnKey Jets, a startup that offers an all-inclusive private jet service including the plane, crew, and pilot.

Popovic was arrested in what seems to have been the first mass arrest that led to a class action a precedent-setting case that Ataogul, the lead lawyer for the eight class actions now proceeding, is looking at carefully.

"It's a precedent-setting moment, and we need to be careful about the precedent we set," Dr. Alberts said.

Others would require precedent-setting zoning variances.

The precedent-setting architectural plans N.Y.U.

Then again, "it was also precedent-setting," she added.

"It was a precedent-setting settlement," Mr. Spitzer said.

The case has already been precedent-setting in Louisiana.