Under the court's precedents, the Fourth Amendment protects only those expectations of privacy that are "reasonable".
"This is the precedent, the first case in which we've tried a head of state for war crimes," General Clark said.
The case sets a bizarre precedent, the first time someone occupying such a high post in Argentina has been the subject of an investigation of this nature.
We will begin by surveying its major precedents in the first half of the twentieth century, including cubism, concretism, muralism, and surrealism.
It is true that there are a number of past precedents on the first type of inherent authority, but there is very little on the second type.
Some of the more notable precedents include: The first comprehensive US government effort to limit the influence of wealthy individuals and special interest groups.
He established important judicial precedents as the first chief justice of the United States (1789 95) and negotiated the Jay Treaty of 1794, which settled major grievances with Great Britain and promoted commercial prosperity.
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.
But Roberts's view about the difference between judges and politicians is fundamentally correct: "the role of judges differs from the role of politicians," he wrote in the Florida case, and the Supreme Court's "precedents applying the First Amendment to political elections have little bearing on the issues here".
Though Mr. Johnson's lawyers invoked that precedent, the Ninth Circuit disregarded it on the ground that the court in 1968 was addressing a policy that permanently segregated the prison population into whites-only and blacks-only cellblocks.
