The drastic increase in competency cases is attributable, in part, to three precedent-setting cases tried in Sacramento between 2005 and 2008.
There are three precedents for blank-check authorizations on this scale, and none is reassuring.
Despite repeated legal attacks, all three precedents remain standing.
There is but one precedent for a strong prime minister and a weak head of state.
This is one precedent favorable to Democrats, and unfavorable to Republicans in the House.
Ruffling through some papers, he found at least one precedent: in 1963 and 1964, when no award for drama was given.
One was the notion, advanced by Mrs. Litvinenko and cited by many British media outlets opposing the excision of critical evidence, that "open justice requires maximum disclosure," as one precedent cited in Judge Owen's ruling put it.
"The one precedent you might consider is 1937, when there was also a premature withdrawal of fiscal stimulus, and the economy fell into another recession more painful than the first".
As a piece of pure political theater, one precedent for the show is F.D.R.'s fireside chats, the innovation of which was to make the president sound casual and unguarded.
The reality is that the story of exploding interest burdens is utter nonsense since there is zero precedent for the country ever allowing the debt to expand in this way.
The young man Octavian is played by a mezzo-soprano (thus, a woman dressed in male clothing, known as a trouser, pants, or breeches role); one precedent for that circumstance is that of Mozart's Cherubino from The Marriage of Figaro.
