While several high courts in states with guidelines systems have likewise rejected constitutional challenges based on the Apprendi precedent, one court, the Supreme Court of Kansas, struck down its system, which the state then quickly modified.
It was an elegant royal precedent: one that might gracefully be followed.
There is a precedent: one of Bucharest's main concert halls was partly funded through a public offering in the 1880s.
Moreover, it sets a dangerous precedent, one that would allow a landlord to file a petition against any tenant the landlord felt had a "cluttered" apartment.
Perhaps only the visceral horror that lynching inspired gave Meeropol the necessary conviction to write a song with no precedent, one that required a new songwriting vocabulary.
The assistant director of the museum, Richard Klein, acknowledged that the sale is almost without precedent, one reason that it has caught the eye of the Connecticut attorney general, who said this week that he had some concerns.
The decision, on a 2-to-1 vote by a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Massachusetts, sets up a frightening precedent, one that must be reversed by the courts, if not the Congress.
Now that we've learned that seven of nine Supreme Court justices have no problem with intruding into professional sports, rewriting their rules and creating a dangerous precedent, one important question remains: What kind of clubs do Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas swing?
And if Love could persuade the government to embrace his scheme by issuing a compulsory licence for T-DM1, it would set an important precedent – one that could change the cosy relationship between rich countries and Big Pharma for ever.
