Sentences with phrase «decisis which»

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Interestingly, the very link I used for stare decisis will point to Casey v. Planned Parenthood which is probably the closest the court will ever come to overturning Roe v. Wade

Hence, the lack of supporting constitutional text, principles of federalism, and the doctrine of stare decisis (which lends stability to the law by encouraging courts to stand by their prior decisions) all militate against the creation of a federal constitutional right to education or to supposedly equal school funding.

As this year comes to an end I take comfort in the fact that the principle of stare decisis continues to ensure decisions are made in the same way over time and which evens out the upheavals of the day.

In a short judgment (concerned with the extent to which courts were bound by Privy Council decisions) Lord Neuberger said: «In a common law system, where the law is in some areas made, and the law is in virtually all areas developed, by judges, the doctrine of precedent, or as it is sometimes known stare decisis, is fundamental.

A completely different context in which the question of whether there is a «new rule» of law is when a court according to the principles of stare decisis makes a ruling interpreting the constitution in a manner different from or expanding upon previously rulings interpreting the constitution in a similar circumstance.

The legalese term for this is «stare decisis ``, which translates to «let the decision stand».

I guess the Supreme Court issued another banal decision which reinforces the legal wisdom of going before the courts as either a crap shoot or the judges decide based on personal ideological predilections and wrapped up in res or decisis.

He explains, «I have suggested that weighting the number of decisions of a federal court of appeals by the number of citations to those decisions by other courts of appeals, which is to say courts not bound as a matter of stare decisis to follow the cited court's decisions, yields a meaningful measure of judicial output.»

The Law flows from two places, code sections which are voted on by the Georgia legislature and from stare decisis, over 200 years of appellate judicial decisions that make up the collective wisdom of the bench in interpreting the law in certain factual circumstances.

Latin: an observation by a judge on a matter not specifically before the court or not necessary in forming the ratio decidendi - determining the issue before the court; a side opinion which does not form part of the judgment for the purposes of stare decisis.

Doctrinal flexibility demonstrated by the Canadian Western Bank and Marcotte decisions violates the division of powers, introduces uncertainty in the law and undermines the concept of stare decisis, which is central to our justice system.

had there been a defence lawyer rules say they cant hide case law they know about -LCB- they would discover more if defending -RCB- in hope that we don't discover it = unethical.type in» stare decisis and techniques of legal reasoning» Which also says it is unethical and intellectually dishonest for a judge to ignore case law that stands in the way of his decision = the defence wont give case law and the judge wont do defence lawyer research - so case law / evidence will not be heard and will not be there for a SRL to use / defend our case.

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).

(d) The relevant factors in deciding whether to adhere to stare decisis, beyond workability — the precedent's antiquity, the reliance interests at stake, and whether the decision was well reasoned — counsel in favor of abandoning Austin, which itself contravened the precedents of Buckley and Bellotti.

Moreover, doctrinal entrenchment is particularly problematic in the FISA courts, where secrecy and institutional context indicate that outside efforts at doctrinal reform are less likely to be effective than they are with courts that publish their opinions.35 Unlike published opinions, secret opinions can not provoke the public into lobbying for a legislative override36 or judicial overruling37 — two important paths of legal reform.38 Perhaps to hedge against the risks of limited external oversight, FISA limits FISC and Court of Review judges to non-renewable, seven - year terms, 39 a provision suggesting that Congress envisioned a FISA court whose membership would be responsive to shifting factual circumstances and policy priorities.40 Stare decisis, which requires judges to adhere to interpretations of law that they might otherwise reject as unjust or unpersuasive, constrains these judges» ability to adapt to such factual and policy shifts.

This Comment joins other work in arguing that the legitimacy of stare decisis depends upon widespread publication.4 The doctrine of stare decisis itself emerged only with the consistent and reliable publication of court opinions, 5 and legal processes that do not result in the issuance of publicly available opinions, such as settlements and arbitrations, generally lack stare decisis norms altogether.6 Although previous scholarship has discussed the proper role of stare decisis in the context of «unpublished» opinions, 7 which make up around eighty percent of all United States courts of appeals opinions8 (and are usually publicly available despite their name), 9 this Comment provides the first examination of the tenability of stare decisis as applied to truly secret opinions like those of the FISC.

U. L. Rev. 757, 770 (1995)(«Published opinions that state the facts and the reasoning upon which decisions rest are essential to the operation of stare decisis...»); William M. Richman & William L. Reynolds, The Supreme Court Rules for the Reporting of Opinions: A Critique, 46 Ohio St. L.J. 313, 314 (1985)(«The development of «hidden» precedents mocks the concept of stare decisis...»).

But to Justice Scalia, this means that (except for race discrimination, which he views as different for stare decisis reasons), he would limit Congress's Section 5 power to conduct that itself violates the Fourteenth Amendment.

The benefits of and justifications for stare decisis are discussed in the next Part, but it is important to establish as an initial matter that stare decisis also involves serious costs, which are exacerbated by the FISA courts» secrecy and institutional context.

See Orin Kerr, Hints and Questions About the Secret Fourth Amendment Rulings of the FISA Court, Volokh Conspiracy (July 7, 2013, 1:37 AM), http://volokh.com/2013/07/07/hints-and-questions-about-the-secret-fourth-amendment-rulings-of-the-fisa-court [http://perma.cc/YLH4-8Q8Y](«It's just the FISC following the FIS Court of Review to which it is bound under principles of vertical stare decisis.»).

A Master of the Alberta Queen's Bench once wrote that stare decisis creates a judicial pecking order in which judges lower on the pecking order are not entitled to ignore the decisions of their pecking order superiors.

For a start, stare decisis requires identification of ratio decidendi by reference, in particular, to the facts of the decided case in which the judicial statement appears, and by identification of majority views.