Once the Court has determined a statute's meaning, it adheres to its ruling under stare decisis and assesses an agency's later interpretation of the statute against that settled law.
Community College v. Katz, 546 U. S. 356, 363 (2006) ("[W]e are not bound to follow our dicta in a prior case in which the point now at issue was not fully debated"); Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U. S. 602, 627 628 (1935) (rejecting, under stare decisis, dicta, "which may be followed if sufficiently persuasive but which are not controlling").
He looks at the world with a strange, sullen, fixed-from-under stare, as though defying all efforts of compassion.
(If you are so bitter that colleagues crumple under your stare of pure hatred, however, get going on those applications before you sabotage your reference).
The place, packed with lights, cables, cameras, recording equipment, and camera crew, is transformed from a room into a motion-picture set, and into the middle of this set, when all is ready, the interviewees, one by one, are finally led, a lapel microphone hung around each man's neck like a noose, to be questioned under the stare of the lenses and hot lights.
(Around him, many seats are empty; under-employed croupiers stare vacantly, while a handful of smokers puff forlornly in a corner room).
In his words, Roe v. Wade "is settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis".
It will decide, even if it controls it, whether it should be revisited under the doctrine of stare decisis.
Gertz, however, is now the law of the land, and until it is overruled, it must, under the principle of stare decisis, be applied by this Court.
Under Thomas's narrow reading of the Eighth Amendment, all these cases would be wrong; under his approach to stare decisis, all would be overturned.
That amendment established the principle of stare decisis, under which high courts' decisions were to be considered binding precedents, with the intention of increasing the efficiency of lower courts.
