If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision ( this principle is known as stare decisis ).

If, however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct from all previous cases ( called a " matter of first impression "), judges have the authority and duty to make law by creating precedent.

If a dispute arises as to the accuracy or completeness of the codification of an unenacted title, the courts will turn to the language in the United States Statutes at Large.

If Bell's inequalities are violated, either local realism or counterfactual definiteness must be incorrect ; but some physicists dispute that experiments have demonstrated Bell's violations, on the grounds that the sub-class of inhomogeneous Bell inequalities has not been tested or due to experimental limitations in the tests.

If Canada holds that the principle of natural prolongation applies to the Juan de Fuca Canyon on its Pacific Ocean coast, the assertion could undermine Canada's argument in the Gulf of Maine boundary dispute.

If reconciliation succeeded, all parties considered the dispute to be honorably settled, and went home.

If the dispute arises because some aspect of the constitution is ambiguous or unclear, the ultimate resolution of the crisis often establishes a precedent for the future.

If the context of inheritance rights, it will be the heirs of the deceased person who are attempting to dispute or establish paternity.

If among monks or nuns occurs a quarrel or dispute or dissension, the young monk should ask forgiveness of the superior, and the superior of the young monk.

And If any dispute shall arise between the Parties the present Convention relating to its interpretation or application, the dispute shall, at the request of any one of the Parties to the dispute, be referred to the International Court of Justice ( Article 22 ).

If these efforts are ineffective, they may ask SEOM ( Senior Economic Officials Meetings ) to establish panel of independent arbitrators to review the dispute.

* Dispute resolution: If a dispute over an actual or proposed national rule cannot be resolved after a 30-day consultation, the matter may be referred to a panel comprising independent experts that the parties select.

If a dispute arises under both CAFTA-DR and the WTO Agreement, the complaining party may choose either forum.

If a BBB receives a consumer dispute, the BBB contacts the business in question and offers to mediate the dispute.

If a individual's right under the law is at stake, the dispute must be determined through a fair process.

" If schools or physicians differed over who should get an allotment of bodies, the dispute was to be settled by the mayor – a high-reaching conspiracy that resulted in a harvest of about 450 bodies per school year.

If a dispute erupted between two clients ( e. g. businessmen competing for a construction contract ) who are protected by rival racketeers, the two racketeers would have to fight each other to win the dispute for their respective clients.

If the president was unable to settle the dispute, then the player would be placed in the reserve list of the franchise and would be unavailable to play for any team in the NFL that year.

If both parties agreed on the same resolution, the dispute was resolved.

* Provide verification of the debt If a consumer sends a written dispute or request for verification within 30 days of receiving the § 1692g notice, then the debt collector must either mail the consumer the requested verification information or cease collection efforts altogether.

If internal frictions arose, they could be handled by the 25,000-man Congolese army, the Force Publique, which had been trained and was still officered by white Belgians.

But at the first lecture Adorno's attempt to open up the lecture and invite questions whenever they arose degenerated into a disruption from which he quickly fled: after a student wrote on the blackboard " If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease ," three women students approached the lectern, bared their breasts and scattered flower petals over his head.

The well-known slogan " If you want to get ahead, get a hat " arose in Denton and, needless to say, anyone attending for a job interview not wearing a hat was quickly shown the door.

If the ship were existing as something which arose due to an intrinsic relationship between itself and the parts which composed that self, then therefore it would cease to exist as soon as it lost even one of its original parts.

If a threat arose, it could quickly wipe out their population because their breeding grounds are confined to a small island group.

If occasion arose the proctor could arrest a suspected woman and have her taken to the Spinning House ( for which Thomas Hobson the carrier had left an endowment ); the next day the woman was brought before the vice-chancellor, who had power to commit her to the Spinning House ; as a general rule the sentence was not for a longer period than three weeks.

If no scholar was deemed suitable and a vacancy arose, then the next scholar selected would receive the standard yearly rate, along with any rents acquired during the vacancy.

If there are still unutilised Case I losses that arose in that period, a company may elect to carry these back against its taxable profits of the last 12 months < sup > 3 </ sup >.

If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose.

If the future arose from a call to then a blocking wait ( without a timeout ) may cause synchronous invocation of the function to compute the result on the waiting thread.

If a matter of inquiry arose, the local Beth din was consulted.

If a controversy arose, the amendment called for the creation of a special committee consisting of various Cabinet level members and at least one member from the affected state where the project in question was located.

If you declare that the raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, for the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have risen equally naturally.

`` If once they become inattentive to the public affairs '', Jefferson said, `` you and I, and Congress and assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves ''.

The case of " beauty " is different from mere " agreeableness " because, " If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others ; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things.

If conditions change, so that the pope judges it safe to make the appointment public, he may do so at any time.

If five judges then the highest and lowest scores are discarded and the middle three are summed and multiplied by the degree of difficulty ( DD ), which is determined from a combination of the moves undertaken, in which position and from what height ).

If all of the rounds expire with no knockout then the fight is scored by a team of 3 judges.

If, therefore, the legislature pass any laws, inconsistent with the sense the judges put upon the constitution, they will declare it void.

If it be accepted, as can hardly be denied, that the answers of the judges to the questions asked by the House of Lords in 1843 are to be read in the light of the then existing case-law and not as novel pronouncements of a legislative character, then the High Court's analysis in Stapleton's Case is compelling.

In 1963, the 10-minute halt was introduced, to occur after the completion of phases A, B, and C. It took place in a marked out area ( the 10-minute box ), where the horse was checked by two judges and one veterinary official who would make sure the horse was fit to continue onto phase D. If the horse was unfit, the panel would pull it from the competition.

If the judges interpret the laws themselves and suffer none else to interpret, they may easily make, of the laws, shipmen's hose !".

In April 2001 Hamilton said, " If I am bankrupt, he was the following month I won't be able to return to the bar but even if I was able to do so, I couldn't contain myself from saying what I thought to some of the judges.

If so, the Full Court hears and judges the case.

If the diocesan bishop judges it opportune after he has heard the presbyteral council, a pastoral council is to be established in each parish, over which the pastor presides and in which the Christian faithful, together with those who share in pastoral care by virtue of their office in the parish, assist in fostering pastoral activity.

If he judges it opportune, a pastoral council is established in each parish of his diocese.

If a man refused to serve he was put in front of a panel of two judges: one appointed by a board of selection named by Parliament, and the other by the senior county judge.

If the judges found that it was best if the person stayed at home, then he was not sent overseas.

If the application is ruled admissible by the Court's secretary, notice thereof is served on the judges, the state or the Commission ( depending on who lodged the application ), the victims or their next-of-kin, the other member states, and OAS headquarters.

If there are contests the arena director is ultimately responsible for providing judges, though he often has another assistant who is the head judge.

:* If none of the above conditions were satisfied, a panel of three judges scored the competitors on style, control, damage, and aggression.

If only six of the judges disagreed, then the case was deadlocked and dismissed.

** If the match reaches its time limit then the outcome of the bout is determined by the three judges.

: If a fight was stopped on advice of the ring doctor after an accidental but illegal action, e. g. a clash of heads, and the contest is in its second or third round, the match will be decided by the judges using the same criteria.

If no infringements occur, the result is decided by a judge or judges on the waterside who determine the finish order of the crews.

If the unanimous verdict of seven judges dissipated any public doubts, the reiterated protestations of the condemned man brought them to life again.