The judge is not a clean slate, inputting arguments, reading precedent and rendering a more or less predictable decision.
As a result, the interesting fact emerged that doctors who selected (D) (followed by (C), (B) and (A)) had more experience of reading legal precedents.
This indicated that there was some relation between interns' reading legal precedents and their reason given for "Why do patients require the disclosure of medical records?" An arrow directed from "patients" to "doctors" in Figure 1 shows how doctors perceive patients' evaluations of doctors.
If one is sure that the Court's choice about the health care law is "fettered" by the law laid down by prior precedent, one simply cannot have read those precedents.
The results of the survey indicated that doctors who had read more precedents showed more distrust toward patients.
On Wednesday morning, a billboard on the West Side Highway in Midtown Manhattan carried an ad for the fashion brand Kenneth Cole that read, "A precedent we can be proud of" and congratulated Mr. Obama.
Funny, though, how the court's four liberal justices vigorously dissented, reading history and precedent quite differently and finding that the Second Amendment proclaimed a collective right protecting state militias.
Student participation-type education, in which students learn not by simply reading and remembering the precedents and articles, but by comprehending particular cases, would be a useful way to introduce precedent education into medical education.
As is now well known, Judge Cummings' unprecedented view of the Second Amendment was endorsed by the Supreme Court nine years later in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the High Court, in a 5-4 defiedon, defits its own precedent in reading the Amendment to confer an individual right unrelated to militia service.
It first read existing California precedents as creating a fundamental right to marry the person of one's choice.
