A precedent, known asstare decisis, is a history of judicial decisions which form the basis of evaluation for future cases. Common law, also known as case law, relies on detailed records of similar situations and statutes because there is no official legal code that can apply to a case at ...
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However, the LII website states that the Supreme Court has also said in the past that stare decisis is not an "inexorable command." There have been a number of Supreme Court rulings that do not follow the doctrine of stare decisis. Such rulings include the Brown v. Board of Education,...
u201cFormalistu201d theories claim that (1) the law is u201crationallyu201d determinate, that is, the class of legitimate legal reasons available for a judge to offer in support of his or her decision justifies one and only one outcome either in all cases or in some significant and ...
The first objective of this paper is to define the rule of law in sufficiently unambiguous and concrete terms to be used as a practical aid in drafting, analysing and implementing laws; the second is to critique the tendency to use the term as a synonym for whatever anyone espouses. The ...
Although Barrett has written about the value of “stare decisis,” she has also defended a justice’s ability to overturn precedent. In a2013 law journal article, she wrote, “I tend to agree with those who say that a justice’s duty is to the Constitution and th...
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