Sentence examples for precedents about from inspiring English sources
Given this highly muddled decision, Justice Kagan is right to advise trial judges and others to follow earlier precedents about forensic evidence.
WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
Jody Armour, a professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, said legal precedents about the power of the police to seize such videos are still emerging as new technology is developed.
All of this will continue to play out next year, perhaps with the passage of new laws regulating these companies, and with legal decisions that set precedents about how the companies, and their users, may behave.
Shortly after the chief justice sent his reply to C-Span, CNN filed a formal, 22-page application with the court, citing a number of Supreme Court precedents about public access to legal proceedings.
Both the National Association of Muslim Lawyers and CAIR said they were working in uncharted legal territory, as they had been unable to find firm legal precedents about how an unindicted co-conspirator could be removed from such a list.
As Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once warned, any new claim of executive power, once validated into precedent, 'lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.
"There's not a definitive legal precedent about this.
That one carried a life sentence; it would also have set a dangerous precedent about what it means to harm the United States and to have a free press.
In dissent, Justice Alito wrote that "the court's decision creates a precedent about precedent that may have greater precedential effect than the dubious decisions on which it relies".
It was, said Theroux, "the foundation of Naipaul's genius" - a novel without precedent, about a little man from Trinidad with big dreams.
