Judges typically say such observations are not to be used as precedent.
The court itself announced that it cannot be used as precedent in other cases, which is almost a concession they have jumped off the rails.
By most courts' definition, such rulings cannot be used as precedent for other cases, which the critics say encourages inconsistent rulings that sometimes seem based on whim or bias.
She added that the ruling, "if allowed to stand, could be used as precedent for other detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, including sworn enemies of the United States suspected of planning the attacks of 9/11, who may also seek release into our country".
That'll be key if either one emerges a clear victor, in a case that still isn't set to go to trial until 2014, since to have an impact on devices currently shipping at the time the ruling will have to be used as precedent for securing injunctions against future hardware.
"When someone begins an opinion by saying, 'This is not to be used as precedent by anybody else,' you gotta be suspicious of what's in it.
The same Court that decided the 2000 election in an opinion so embarrassing to them that it was unsigned and declared not to be used as precedent?
Concerns that the provision could be used as precedent, letting the AU send troops into other countries without consent, were cited as a likely reason some leaders may have backed away from the Burundi plan.
Even if we ended up with a narrow Supreme Court opinion striking down Prop 8 in a way that only applies to California, the case could be used as precedent to build on in the future.
The NRA wants SCOTUS to exonerate the Virginia state trooper who lied on the 4473, using as precedent a wacko in Texas who got somebody else to lie on his behalf.
