Add to ORKGStare decisis, the rule that judicial precedents should be followed, has been considered by American courts to be more a rule of thumb than an ironfisted command. While stare decisis emphasizes the continuity of law as a means to preserve public respect for judicial decisionmaking and to protect the reliance interests of persons and institutions, these values must sometimes yield to growth and change. Thus, an American court does not consider itself inexorably bound by its own precedents, but, in the interest of uniformity of treatment to litigants, and of stability and certainty in the law... will follow the rule of law which it has established in earlier cases unless clearly convinced that the rule was originally erroneous or is no longe...
As Randy Barnett, a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, stated, “how and when precedent should be re...
This Article, a contribution to a symposium on constitutional foundations, maintains that an unappre...
The Supreme Court has long given its cases interpreting statutes special protection from overruling....
The principle of stare decisis in United States courts appears in two aspects – the courts of lower ...
In the United States Supreme Court, the concept of stare decisis operates as both metadoctrine and d...
Supreme Court precedent is a topic of perennial prominence. The Court overruled or severely limited ...
Stare decisis has been called many things, among them a principle of policy, a series of prudential ...
When courts deliberate on the implications of a precedent case in the adjudication of a new dispute,...
Stare decisis is an integral, accepted principle of American and common-law jurisprudence. The idea ...
Additional contributor: Timothy Johnson (faculty mentor).Stare decisis, Latin for “to stand by,” is ...
The principle of stare decisis in United States courts appears in two aspects – the courts of lower ...
The Supreme Court follows the Doctrine of Stare Decisis, of which dictates that the Court must follo...
The doctrine of stare decisis remains a defining feature of American law despite challenges to its l...
In this Essay, I wish to build on Professor Waldron\u27s thoughtful analysis by saying something mor...
The rule of stare decisis creates a presumption that a court’s ruling on a legal question remains bi...
As Randy Barnett, a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, stated, “how and when precedent should be re...
This Article, a contribution to a symposium on constitutional foundations, maintains that an unappre...
The Supreme Court has long given its cases interpreting statutes special protection from overruling....
The principle of stare decisis in United States courts appears in two aspects – the courts of lower ...
In the United States Supreme Court, the concept of stare decisis operates as both metadoctrine and d...
Supreme Court precedent is a topic of perennial prominence. The Court overruled or severely limited ...
Stare decisis has been called many things, among them a principle of policy, a series of prudential ...
When courts deliberate on the implications of a precedent case in the adjudication of a new dispute,...
Stare decisis is an integral, accepted principle of American and common-law jurisprudence. The idea ...
Additional contributor: Timothy Johnson (faculty mentor).Stare decisis, Latin for “to stand by,” is ...
The principle of stare decisis in United States courts appears in two aspects – the courts of lower ...
The Supreme Court follows the Doctrine of Stare Decisis, of which dictates that the Court must follo...
The doctrine of stare decisis remains a defining feature of American law despite challenges to its l...
In this Essay, I wish to build on Professor Waldron\u27s thoughtful analysis by saying something mor...
The rule of stare decisis creates a presumption that a court’s ruling on a legal question remains bi...
As Randy Barnett, a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, stated, “how and when precedent should be re...
This Article, a contribution to a symposium on constitutional foundations, maintains that an unappre...
The Supreme Court has long given its cases interpreting statutes special protection from overruling....