The phrase "prior decision" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a decision that was made before the present moment. For example, "We are revisiting our prior decision to close early on Fridays."
Argentina has already filed a motion asking the entire Court of Appeals to rehear the prior decision of these judges.
In authorizing the instructions, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals appeared to have "clearly misapprehended our prior decision," Justice O'Connor wrote.
So last week's arts announcements, and the prior decision to close BBC3 rather than BBC4, can be seen as having a strong element of political coalition-building about them.
If it goes ahead with its decision, it would be the second time the bank has warned Somali remittance companies of pending account closures; in October 2014, the bank reversed a prior decision to close their accounts.
The National Labor Relations Board, in a surprising reversal of a prior decision by its own general counsel, said that including a class waiver in an employment contract constituted an unfair labor practice.
"The government's case has already been severely damaged by the court's prior decision to exclude evidence," said Mathew Rosengart, a partner at the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips law firm and a former federal prosecutor.
It is not the number of prior decisions that the Roberts court has overruled that is so worrisome.
KPMG was "reassessing our prior decisions with respect to the payment of legal fees," said Kathy Fitzgerald, a spokeswoman for the firm.
Mr. Holder also directed that the new standard be used to re-evaluate the government's position in some pending lawsuits challenging prior decisions to withhold records.
But, as Olson had argued before the Justices, the logic of the Court's prior decisions suggested that foreign corporations had equal rights to spend in American elections.
In a statement Friday, an S.E.C. spokesman, John Nestor, said, "Prior decisions on how to proceed were made in consultation with our law enforcement partners".
