case law

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That means you have to look to previous case law to see what might happen when the 61-year-old is sentenced next month.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

And I can say there’s not a lot of case law on this issue.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

In deciding the case, involving Texas’ election law, he and his law clerks had sifted through hundreds of thousands of exhibits, reviewed testimony from more than 70 witnesses and researched relevant case law.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Normally, Colorado case law takes a relatively capacious view of how a crime’s “gravity” should be measured.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

He wrote, “There is virtually no case law whatsoever in the entire United States that has addressed it. The technology is just too new.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel