Q: We went to trial and won. The other side appealed. Eighteen months later, the court of appeal reversed, and now we have to ...

In her previous career as a law professor, Judge Amy Coney Barrett wrote extensively and intelligently on the topic of stare decisis (adherence to precedent). In “Precedent and Jurisprudential ...

Cases most often cite Auto Equity Sales for its statement that: “Under the doctrine of stare decisis, all tribunals exercising inferior jurisdiction are required to follow decisions of courts ...

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The rank distortions of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s entirely conventional view on stare decisis (adherence to precedent) are already getting tiresome, but let’s give it another go. In New York ...

Further, there is a doctrine known as “stare decisis,” which means judges are to “treat like cases alike” and that settled decisions are not to be disturbed. Thus, it is an understandable ...