Word: precedental
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Society's horrified reaction has plenty of precedent as well. In Leviticus, God tells Moses: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon...
ACSR recommended that Harvard vote in favor of the proposal, but the CCSR followed its precedent and abstained.
fueled by the seniors, who set an amazing precedent," she says. "Their effort and enthusiasm have led us this far and will carry us [in the future]."
Whatever one thinks of the legal reasoning employed in White's dissent, it was clearly the precedent-based conclusion of a reasonable jurist, not the ravings of a black-robed subversive intent on rewriting the law. As part of his political move, however, Ashcroft said the reasoning was based on...
In his dissent, Judge White argued that the standard applied by the majority was unnecessarily restrictive. Expert testimony on Johnson's sanity had gone both ways, and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, White stated, would allow a new trial or sentencing if there was a "reasonable probability" of a different outcome...