Sentences with phrase «decisis because»

This is wonderful news for fans of stare decisis because SCOTUS held the exact same thing in Global - Tech v. SEB S.A. No real surprises here.

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In 1992, the court questioned the validity of the physical presence test because of intervening rulings but stuck with the Bellas Hess rule as a matter of stare decisis, as well as the idea that mail - order retailers faced difficulties in complying with tax obligations from about 6,000 separate state and local taxing jurisdictions nationwide.

Civil law jurisdictions, for example, lack U.S. tools like citators and case digests because of the reduced role cases play in systems that do not adhere to stare decisis.

Indeed, the entire system of stare decisis would be undermined if courts, and in particular trial courts, were free to deviate from established precedent because, in their interpretation, its underlying principles no longer accorded with society's basic, and ipso facto, shifting values.

(7) The Court of Appeal should not refuse to overturn a decision on the basis of precedent, or stare decisis, because leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada is not automatic and Canada's highest court can not therefore be relied upon to resolve any inconsistencies that result from differing rulings by the Court of Appeal on a particular issue.

But what it means in practice is that the only reason today that Article III judges must defer to the D.C. Court of Appeals on questions of D.C. law is because the D.C. Circuit itself has said so — and so stare decisis, and not the Rules of Decision Act or principles of federalism — carries all the weight (and would not bind federal courts outside of the D.C. Circuit in diversity cases in which choice - of - law rules compel application of D.C. substantive law).

The practice is incompatible with a precedent - based legal system because it is inconsistent with the doctrine of stare decisis — when a court has decided a principle of law applicable to certain facts, it will apply that principle to all future cases where the facts are substantially the same.

Because the theoretical justifications for stare decisis depend largely on publication, the FISA courts should publish any opinion that they consider binding precedent.

Stare decisis is also defended on the ground that it increases the «perceived integrity of the judicial process» by promoting the appearance of the rule of law.52 When courts cavalierly overrule their own precedent, they may reduce the public's confidence in the view that judges are constrained by the principles of law they espouse.53 However, granting binding precedential value to secret opinions fails to promote the appearance of the rule of law, precisely because these opinions are secret.

This cost of stare decisis is heightened in the secret law context, because the incentive to invest extra effort in writing opinions is less powerful without the promise, and constraints, of public scrutiny.32 The general principle, evidenced by the congressional testimony of Judge Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit, 33 is that publication induces judges to write more thorough, carefully reasoned opinions.

Even absent any formal stare decisis norm, courts tend to preserve significant consistency in their opinions because of the persuasive value of past decisions, awareness of the costs of disrupting established programs, and the fact that courts are repeat decision makers.51 There is no reason to suppose the FISA courts would act differently.

21 These bases for en banc jurisdiction suggest that individual FISC judges must give stare decisis effect to any en banc panel decision that is not overturned by the Court of Review because, absent such a practice, the en banc panels would not fulfill one of their two statutory purposes: to secure or maintain uniformity.

Payne v Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808, 827 (1991)(«Stare decisis is the preferred course because it... contributes to the actual and perceived integrity of the judicial process.»

See, e.g., Benjamin N. Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process 57 - 58 (1921)(«Stare decisis is at least the everyday working rule of our law... [A judge makes law through issuing opinions because] in fashioning [the law for the parties to a case], he will be fashioning it for others.»).

See, e.g., Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203, 235 (1997)(«The doctrine of stare decisis... is at its weakest when we interpret the Constitution because our interpretation can be altered only by constitutional amendment or by overruling our prior decisions.»).