The court cannot return to the same case and change its mind. And the legal doctrine of stare decisis — Latin for “let the decision stand”— means later members of the court are reluctant to ...

The article discusses Flanders v. Goodfellow, where the court overruled its previous ruling that barred negligence claims against domestic animal owners. Emphasizing the flexibility of stare decisis, ...

In this edition of their Appellate Practice column, Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty Jr. discuss the reasons why the majority in 'Dobbs' concluded that the doctrine of stare decisis did not ...

Separate statements made by you in your concurrence to Gamble v. United States are very encouraging to us-as they are to many Americans. It is our opinion that the doctrine of stare decisis should not ...

This column is the second in a series of three considering some potential implications of June Medical Services v. Russo, a case involving a constitutional challenge to a Louisiana law regulating ...

Parents often say that two wrongs don’t make a right. Statutory stare decisis — a form of stare decisis on steroids — actually invokes three wrongs under the Constitution. And piling up constitutional ...

The justices explored possible ways to limit the doctrine of patent assignor estoppel during oral argument in Minerva Surgical Inc. v. Hologic Inc. on Wednesday. The doctrine works like this. An ...

Friday's decision eliminates a constitutional right for first time. In thousands of rulings over its storied history, the U.S. Supreme Court has broken with stare decisis, the doctrine of respecting ...

As the Supreme Court wrestles with the Mississippi abortion law, the Latin phrase “stare decisis” is likely to keep coming up. The phrase, which roughly translates as “to stand by things already ...

Matthew J. Crigger is an attorney in Brentwood, Tennessee. Some who oppose the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court fear a roll-back of Supreme Court precedent relating ...

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 magazine, ...