The suit filed by Boies and Olson cites heavyweight Supreme Court precedents such as Brown v.
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So McCain-Feingold, and two Supreme Court precedents, had to be mostly overruled.
Most closely contested cases have been over relatively narrow differences of opinion about how to apply earlier court precedents to new situations.
When subsequent Supreme Courts turned to the right, the number of citations continued to fall, implying they were ignoring the Warren Court precedents.
But the Obama Democrats neglected to include one amid the political rush to pass the law, and Supreme Court precedents are less than clear.
Only two Justices, Thomas and Scalia, have built their jurisprudence around originalism (one of them faintheartedly), so its full adoption would require the trashing of dozens, if not hundreds, of Court precedents.
That would be perfectly legal under Supreme Court precedents that allow the police to tail suspects, go through their trash and even cross private property to observe their activities as long as they are out in the open.
He cited Court of Appeals precedents as well as decisions in favor of local bans in the upstate towns of Dryden and Middlefield.
The High Court's precedents say Congress can attach conditions to federal funds, akin to a contract, but Congress cannot use the spending power to force states to sign it.
One of these reforms allowed the court to create binding precedents that must be followed by lower courts in similar cases.
As an appeals-court judge, she was always obliged to defer to precedents set by the Supreme Court.
Indeed, many Sierra Leoneans are proud of the court's work and the precedents that it might set for other African countries.
But up until now, she has been obliged to defer to precedents set by the Supreme Court.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the dissent, on behalf of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, arguing that by striking down the law the court was shielding lies and breaking from precedents that regarded false statements as not protected by free-speech rights.
Every ruling of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, so long as it is composed of its current Justices, will result in precedents that are instantly suspect due to the charges that have been levied by members of the court.
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This Court has a duty to defend the integrity of its precedents, and we should grant certiorari to affirm that Lopez provides the proper framework for a Commerce Clause analysis of this type.
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On the state level a unique remedy may be at hand, particularly as state courts can hand down decisions that go directly against rulings of the Supreme Court (state courts are sometimes not bound by federal precedents, especially when it comes to state constitutional law).
And when the Supreme Court takes a case, the existence of multiple, conflicting precedents gives the justices more raw material from which to fashion their own decisions.
In debate before Thursday's votes, Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, said the Senate version includes legal precedents of expanded sovereignty that could be subject to court challenge.
The Court repeatedly emphasized that it was not adopting a heightened pleading standard or overturning any precedents.
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Critics' main focus has been on changes they say undermine the country's judiciary, such as one barring the Constitutional Court from considering the legality of constitutional amendments and from applying case law and legal precedents predating the new Basic Law, which took effect in 2012.
As a lower-court judge for 17 years, she said, she has faithfully upheld the law and precedents.
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But when the Federal Circuit became the only court ruling on patent cases, there were no more circuit splits and no more competing legal precedents.
It is time the Court finally contemplate whether the accretion of federal authority through its repeated tweaking of ill-conceived precedents has led to an absurd outcome that is contradictory to the fundamental understanding of the federal government as possessing only limited and enumerated powers.
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