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With that precedent it now becomes difficult not to contemplate another resignation.

If China followed that precedent, it could withdraw from the Law of the Sea Treaty altogether -- joining the United States as one of the world's only nations not party to the agreement.

And now that they've set this precedent, it's only a matter of time before Capitalized Names everywhere start demanding that Amazon extends that most-favored-literary-nation status to them, too.

But the precedent it sets – that a startup should bully domain owners out of their property – is a dangerous one.

The worrying thing about this is the precedent it creates, that a venue operator may search bags and steal items from visitors.

"As soon as I saw that the FEC had created a window, by creating that precedent, I pushed for it as hard as I could," Gray, 46, said.

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.

It argued that precedent was set when Congress passed legislation to apply the Constitution to the Northwest Territory and the Louisiana Purchase.

Some lawyers say this was a rare case and doubt that, as a precedent, it will affect many future cases.

New technology doesn't mean that law enforcement gets a bonanza; it means that precedents need to be reëxamined before they are uncritically applied — and that the N.S.A.'s advocates will have some real work to do.

If politics adheres to precedent, it follows that an outcome almost without precedent cannot happen.