This is as close to a logical deduction as you get in precedential reasoning, but lots of people disagree. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"This is as close to a logical deduction as you get in precedential reasoning," ❋ Unknown (2006)
What's more, a single judge's ruling has no precedential value should other courts be asked to decide similar but jurisdictionally distinct issues in the future. ❋ Jr. M.S. Bellows (2010)
Chris Travers: However, if I understand civil law systems properly, no single decision is of precedential value, and instead you have deference to the whole of caselaw, ❋ Unknown (2010)
The precedential value of any decision (vertical or horizontal) is what you can get away with. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I am sure Obama will prudently and reasonably consider the precedential nature of the actions suggested here. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Seventh Circuit has repeatedly held that district court opinions are not precedential and it actively discourages district courts in the Circuit from citing district court opinions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If, however, precedential values flows from the authority of the prior decision as a declaration of law then horizontal precedent should be binding. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Does a per curiam opinion have the same precedential weight as a signed opinion? ❋ Unknown (2010)
MGA: The Seventh Circuit has repeatedly held that district court opinions are not precedential and it actively discourages district courts in the Circuit from citing district court opinions. yeah, I saw one where Easterbrook held the appellant had “waived” an argument because all he cited was district court decisions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As an aside, I came across this web page after thinking about the precedential value of the Northern Dist. of CA striking down Prop 208 tonight. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In other words, what I draw from this is that while each case might in theory be limited to its facts, a series of cases might, as a whole, provide precedential value. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the same way that the Supreme Court benefits from the give-and-take of circuit splits, circuit courts are better able to appreciate the need for them to issue a precedential opinion when the district courts are in open disagreement. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Such a settlement wouldn 't "have any precedential value" for plaintiffs' attorneys in the suits, he says. ❋ John R. Emshwiller (2010)
If a prior decision is precedential only to the extent that a higher court can compel compliance on a lower, then there need be no horizontal precedent. ❋ Unknown (2010)
However, if I understand civil law systems properly, no single decision is of precedential value, and instead you have deference to the whole of case law, so if we had a system like that, courts would have to look at Yates together with Whitney v. California (upholding anti-Communist dragnet laws). ❋ Unknown (2010)
I am also a former dist. court law clerk whose judge made a point of instructing me that other district court opinions had no precedential value. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I think the issue here is that, in a civil law system, precedential value of each case is rather limited. ❋ Unknown (2010)
