Sentence examples for that precedents from inspiring English sources

The report attributes this to how state-level courts operate, suggesting that precedents are not being followed "reliably" at that level.

Legal experts said that precedents set in similar cases had resulted in jail terms, usually in the range of three to nine months.

She said, in dozens of different ways, that she has the highest respect for the legal principle that precedents are to be upheld except in very unusual circumstances.

"And I take very seriously, as we all do, the principle of stare decisis" — the doctrine that precedents should not lightly be disturbed.

Now the question becomes whether there is a good enough reason to violate the doctrine of stare decisis, which says that precedents should be overturned only for a very good reason.

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.

Roberts brushes that precedent aside as merely "one paragraph of its 139-page opinion".

We do not argue that precedent must be worshiped and upheld at all costs.

So how can the footballing authorities bend that precedent and not the precedent which allows suspended players to go up and receive their medals in the Champions Leaguee final?

The AFA was rattled by Kavanaugh's previous statements that precedent actually matters.

Another myth is that historical precedents dictate that zeroing out the debt would be prudent.