Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author James Zirin explained the concept of stare decisis, the doctrine in which many court cases are decided based on previous precedent. He spoke ...

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, ...

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 ...

Both majority and dissenting opinions include extensive discussions of stare decisis. But the truth is whether you think Roe v. Wade should have been preserved on that basis is heavily correlated with ...

I saw this post at the "Re's Judicata" blog, written by Prof. Richard Re (University of Virginia), and found it very interesting; I asked Prof. Re whether I could repost it, and he graciously agreed: ...

One very important point in the confirmation hearings of Justice Brett Kavanaugh received little attention. It was Kavanaugh’s professed respect for the doctrine of not overruling previous Supreme ...

Three Florida Democrats spoke at the Planned Parenthood in Kissimmee to address the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court showing a plan to throw out the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. ‘Our ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the oral argument of Torres v. Madrid on Wednesday, the justices tried out all the tools of constitutional interpretation as they worked through the meaning of the critical Fourth Amendment term, ...

User-Created Clip by dinica July 18, 2018 2016-04-05T08:19:31-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/63f/20160405081950002_hd.jpgSpeaking in front a group at an event ...