[14] These «clearly established principles of law» do not emanate solely from
precedential appellate decisions, but rather «can derive from a variety of legal sources, including recent controlling case law, rules of court, statutes, and constitutional law.»
Not exact matches
Within days the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), a national organization with more than 14,000 member families in California, had collected over 250,000 signatures calling on the California Supreme Court to «depublish» the
appellate court's ruling, which would strip it of
precedential value.
There are so many areas of South Carolina law that could use
precedential analysis by our
appellate courts that the act of depublishing opinions is almost perverse.
A large number of federal
appellate courts state on the face of their
precedential opinions that the date on which the opinion issued is the date on which the case was decided.
«However, as
appellate interpretation of standard form contracts will have greater
precedential value, this should eventually reduce litigation and limit future contractual disputes around the standard form clauses,» said Bombier.
On May 6, 2016, the North Carolina Supreme Court released a deadlocked 3 - 3 decision, leaving the intermediate
appellate decision undisturbed without
precedential value.
The Court of Review is an
appellate court, and like other Article III
appellate courts, it has the power to bind both lower courts (in this case, the FISC) and later Court of Review panels.22 The Court of Review probably has the same discretion as federal courts of appeals to designate opinions as
precedential and non-
precedential; at least, no statutory provision declares otherwise.23 The two public Court of Review opinions are published in redacted form in the Federal Reporter.24 As with the published case of the FISC sitting en banc, these published Court of Review cases are certainly
precedential.25 We do not know the volume, if any, of secret non-
precedential Court of Review opinions, or whether there are non-public Court of Review opinions that are nonetheless treated as
precedential.
Where do you stand on the question of allowing citation to «unpublished» opinions; do you believe that federal
appellate court panels should be able to designate some of their rulings as «non-
precedential» upon issuance, or should the
precedential value of an opinion be left to later panels to determine; and why?
Do you believe that federal
appellate court panels should be able to designate some of their rulings as «non-
precedential» upon issuance, or should the
precedential value of an opinion be left to later panels to determine; and why?