precedent
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Based on precedent, Jackson, 28, likely faces a suspension.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
So Truist looks beyond historical precedent to analyze how the market is likely to be affected from here by business-cycle dynamics, fundamental corporate indicators and market signals.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Still more, unlike with the former, there is precedent to guide the court: Justice Bushrod Washington’s ample explication of Article IV’s Privileges and Immunity Clause in 1823 in Corfield v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
There is legal precedent for a death sentence to be commuted due to a botched execution combined with an inmate's poor medical state.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
There was no precedent, he wrote, for a private organization to sue a state entity in his court.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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Pillay’s career includes challenging apartheid in South Africa and serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she helped establish legal precedents recognizing sexual violence as an act of genocide.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
The majority said Supreme Court precedents make clear that “mere offense, disagreement or distaste” isn’t enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The court’s precedents are creating an invisible tightrope very few plaintiffs can cross successfully.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
And some of that line crossing could set dangerous precedents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
And in fact, there are precedents for such a case, including one in which a woman successfully had her father’s DNA removed from a database in Iceland.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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