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Past precedents do not make one hopeful about present peace moves because too many crises have been wrapped into one.
So what might happen if the economies in the rich world stumble again this year?Recent precedents do not look good.
"Supreme court precedents do not set a lot of light on this issue," says Shanmugam, who works for Williams & Connolly law firm in Washington.
"Our precedents do not ask for much from government in this area," he said, adding that "we give great leeway to taxing authorities in this area, for good and sufficient reasons".
In this case, it largely comes down to a question of whether the Western allies can assemble a sufficiently broad coalition of support for their action, given that many experts say that existing treaties, laws and precedents do not offer a simple or clear-cut case for a military strike against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and his forces.
But this simply shows that the law derived from precedents may be vaguer and more indeterminate than that derived from (many) statutes; it does not establish that precedents do not create legal rules.
Current Supreme Court precedents don't clearly require proportionality between crime and punishment, or between searches and seizures.
And yet, such avant-garde precedents don't sit easily with Box Sized Die or rather, its context.
Critics of ObamaCare including federal judges in Florida and Virginia who have struck down all or part of the law say those precedents don't matter because for the first time Congress has ordered citizens to buy something instead of telling them what they can't do.
He said that while the Supreme Court's precedents gave college students the right to conduct worship services at public universities, those precedents did not necessarily authorize the same activity for young children.
Ordinarily, under Supreme Court precedents, distinctions on the basis of citizenship are subject to more exacting judicial scrutiny, but the lower courts found that those precedents did not apply when the policy at issue involved Congress's power over immigration.
