The 2001 verdict of the Amsterdam district court is an important precedent.

The incident set an important precedent in terms of the apparent authority of Parliament to safeguard the nation's interests and its capacity to launch legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the Earl of Strafford and Charles I.

Super-stare decisis is a term used for important precedent that is resistant or immune from being overturned, without regard to whether correctly decided in the first place.

" Insofar as precedent is concerned, stare decisis is important only for the decision, for the detailed legal consequence following a detailed set of facts.

Scholars have recently attempted to apply network theory to precedent in order to establish which precedent is most important or authoritative, and how the court's interpretations and priorities have changed over time.

In this opinion, predictable fidelity to the Constitution is more important than fidelity to unconstitutional precedent.

It is important to recognise that entanglement is more commonly viewed as an algebraic concept, noted for being a precedent to non-locality as well as to quantum teleportation and to superdense coding, whereas non-locality is defined according to experimental statistics and is much more involved with the foundations and interpretations of quantum mechanics.

It is important to note that ancient precedent existed for alternative theories and developments which prefigured later discoveries in the area of physics and mechanics ; but in the absence of a strong empirical tradition, dominance of the Aristotelian school, and in light of the limited number of works to survive translation in an era when many books were lost to warfare, such developments remained obscure for centuries and are traditionally held to have had little effect on the re-discovery of such phenomena ; whereas the invention of the printing press made the wide dissemination of such incremental advances of knowledge commonplace.

Another important issue is that Miller asks for an interpretation of what the " average " person finds offensive, rather than what the more sensitive persons in the community are offended by, as obscenity was defined by the previous test, the Hicklin test, stemming from the English precedent.

1, § 20 represents an important public policy " which the Newspaper violated " when it terminated employment because they exercised free speech " In examining the court precedent, the Wyoming Supreme Court concluded that " erminating an at-will employee for exercising his right to free speech by refusing to follow a legal directive of an employer on the employer's premises during working hours does not violate public policy.

In these ways, a vast body of judicially-created law ( jurisprudence ) has come into existence, and while there is no rule of stare decisis ( binding precedent ), the decisions by important courts have become more-or-less equivalent to case law ( see jurisprudence constante ).

Francis set an important precedent by opening his library to scholars from around the world in order to facilitate the diffusion of knowledge.

This six-act behemoth also set an important precedent by being the first show on Broadway to stand on its own, without the performance of other entertainments or any afterpiece.

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation was a 1999 lawsuit which established an important precedent in regard to reverse engineering.

These remain the only occasions when a President urged such a reconsideration, and has set an important precedent concerning federalism and the rights of state governments.

It became an important legal precedent and left a long legacy of local bitterness toward Gridley.

The case became thereby an important precedent pertaining to First Amendment free speech arguments for hate crime legislation.

However, the proclamation established the important precedent that the indigenous population had certain rights to the lands they occupied — in the past, by contrast, the Crown had granted lands without regard to native claims.

Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by members of the earlier Continental Congresses other than the Declaration of Independence, it established the precedent by which the federal government would be sovereign and expand westward across North America with the admission of new states, rather than with the expansion of existing states and their established sovereignty under the Articles of Confederation.

In 1627 Ferdinand enhanced his authority and set an important legal and military precedent by issuing a Revised Land Ordinance that deprived the Bohemian estates of their right to raise soldiers, reserving this power solely for the monarch.

Although the lawsuit was settled in Accolade's favor, making an extremely important legal precedent, the company later became a licensed Sega developer.

Despite losing Internacional's most important match ever, it set a precedent of great moments to come in this decade, as the team went on to win the Campeonato Gaúcho four years in a row starting in 1981.

This royal garden was an important precedent for botanical gardens and physic gardens that were established in the 16th century.

Their legal dispute resulted in important precedent regarding international custody issues, followed widely in the courts of the U. S. and other countries, sometimes referred to as the " settled purpose " doctrine: In Re Bates, No. CA 122-89, High Court of Justice, Family Div ' l Ct. Royal Courts of Justice, United Kingdom ( 1989 ).

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.

He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

Perhaps his most important private activity was the combination of reading, discussion with a few -- if we can trust his writings to Diodati and the younger Gill, very few -- congenial companions.

most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!

Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.