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This was most evident in the 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, when the five-Justice majority eviscerated the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law (not to mention several of its own precedents), because Congress showed insufficiently tender regard for the free-speech rights of corporations.

Professor Karlan suggested that the cases "circumruled" well-established precedents because "the Court didn't outright overrule" them.

Unlike last Wednesday, when the majority agreed with the government regarding the "state secrets" doctrine, the panel of judges in April 2009 had no hesitation, in reviewing what they described as the "relatively thin history" of the doctrine, in dismissing the government's reliance on two precedents because of their irrelevance to the Jeppesen case.

There could be no mistaking that this war had no precedent, because, this time, the real world had shown up on their doorstep.

I don't think this is really a precedent, because you'll never see another case like this".

But that precedent — because the exemption may be only temporary — is something that executives from First Solar want to avoid.

However, Patten said he did not see that as a precedent because "previous appointments haven't been political vestal virgins".

"It sets a very dangerous precedent because they have taken an editorial view on a song in the Top 40.

"In my view, it sets a very dangerous precedent, because it's effectively saying that state-enacted Islamic law overrides fundamental liberties," Mr. Paiva said.

Most of these maneuvers are of questionable legality and worse precedent because if they were easy, they would have already been used.

Patricia E. Salkin, director of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, said, "There is no right answer because there's no precedent, because this hasn't happened before".