case law
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Citing murky laws and growing case law, online service HelloPrenup last year added optional clauses to its forms to help couples spell out what happens to embryos in a breakup.
The state also claims that government code and case law make the California Department of Parks and Recreation immune from liability.
From Los Angeles Times
The great challenge in the troops cases, legal scholars agree, is that they turn on a vague, century-old text with no relevant case law to help define it.
From Los Angeles Times
Written briefs, oral presentations, and published opinions would provide the accounting equivalent of case law, producing a body of precedent to guide auditors, preparers, and users of financial statements.
From Barron's
Rosenfield, now outside counsel to Consumer Watchdog, alleged that the changes would vest the commissioner with powers not intended by Proposition 103 and not supported by decades of case law.
From Los Angeles Times
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