Sentences with phrase «giving precedential»

On at least three different occasions during the hour and a half negotiation either I or the opposing attorney asked for language in the agreement based on nothing more than our clear expectation that the family court judges could not be expected to follow case law on what is a change of circumstances or not giving precedential value to a temporary order at the final hearing.

Given the precedential effect, CCSA sought review of the decision by the California Supreme Court.

This can be contrasted with common law systems whose intellectual framework comes from judge - made decisional law which gives precedential authority to prior court decisions on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions.

Not exact matches

The 2nd Circuit said the instructions given to the Silver jury by the trial judge were consistent with precedential rulings in other cases prior to the Supreme Court decision in the McDonnell case.

The 2/5 found persuasive the line of reasoning that an «action» does not encompass a defense, as articulated in the Exxess and Gil given that Mountain Air was depublished and of no precedential value given its pendency for state supreme court review.

While the opinion given by the Supreme Court of Canada is not considered to be of the same precedential value as the decisions involving regular litigants, governments do not usually ignore the Court's opinion.

However, common law legal systems give great precedential weight to case law or precedent and are developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals rather than through statute.