"precedent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Christine Pritchard, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, said the decision established a favorable precedent for the state in several other Indian land-claims cases.
- Environmentalists support the cap, saying it would set a favorable precedent for the rest of the country.
- Liberty Counsel has established its goals revolving around influencing policy and providing courts with the legal rationale to develop precedent favorable to its mission.
- He appeared to mean that criminals should not be allowed to rely on favorable precedents.
- Since we had to file the appeal 30 days after the sentence, there was not enough time to dig in and find favorable precedent.
- In this case, Koons won; the case sets a favorable precedent for appropriation art where the use is deemed transformative.
- In fact, the negotiations that US Airways has been engaged in since filing for Chapter 11 protection in August have already set a favorable precedent for United, industry experts say.
- However, in most instances the plaintiffs' desire was to establish favorable precedent, not to impose harsh penalties, and the fines were typically modest.
- In his view, litigation was "just partly about winning the case and establishing a favorable legal precedent," wrote Robert Murphy, a lawyer who is working on a biography of Mr. Stoddard.
- They say one option is to pick off the friendliest companies first and use those contracts to set a favorable precedent.
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