Listening to senators and an appellate judge extol the virtue of adhering to precedent, one would reasonably conclude that most fact patterns are identical, and finding applicable precedent a simple matter of reading the law.
While Rodriguez names as defendants MLB, MLBPA and the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, a review and understanding of applicable precedent demonstrates that the party against whom he has the strongest claim is MLBPA.
That said, the Sterling case has not left the N.B.A. with some rigid and universally applicable precedent.
Re "The Perjury Precedent" (Op-Ed, Dec. 28): The legally applicable precedent for conviction for perjury in the District of Columbia, where the President testified, is not the DeZarn case, which was decided by the Sixth Circuit, but a 1995 opinion by the District of Columbia Circuit in the case of Deborah Gore Dean, a prosecution brought by an independent counsel.
Sotomayor defended her position in Ricci as following applicable precedent.
While the constitution prescribes that Congress shall step in to resolve such a tie, and while a couple of early 19th-century elections were close enough for Congress to get involved, there really are no applicable precedents.
Meanwhile, the government is making money on its sale of Citigroup shares, a precedent that hasn't gone unnoticed.
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"Simply put, under applicable Supreme Court precedent, the Government cannot turn the NCAA rulebook into an appendix of Title 18 of the United States Code," the motion added, referring to the main criminal code.
By openly blocking Liu's confirmation on the ground that his views of the Constitution are outside the mainstream, they would set a precedent applicable to dozens of future nominations, including for seats on the Supreme Court.
(Chinen) Allison Miller-Erik Deutsch Quartet (Tuesday) Ms. Miller, a drummer, and Mr. Deutsch, who plays piano and keyboards, share a sensibility of grounded exploration, drawing from various pop precedents along with modern jazz.
