There was no established precedent for what they confronted.
Pitting individual restrictions against the established precedent of newspapers doesn't build your case.
Turning to the specifics of the case, Kaufman took note of established precedent that the search of an office could be held unconstitutional.
Nowell's case became established precedent as to the eligibility of similar candidates in future places.
Mr. McConnell has promised to follow established precedents in the area, and that is worth something.
The New York is a design which owes very little to established precedents and yet still looks familiar and comfortable.
He added that "nothing about my personal views would prevent me" from following established precedent as a circuit judge.
In these classes, leaks, politics and the President's videotaped testimony are as important as the established precedents law students have been poring over for generations.
Civil law has its own respect for established precedent, the doctrine of jurisprudence constante.
Secondly, the new disclosures requirements on lawyers, I believe, would seriously undermine the long established precedent of lawyer/client confidentiality.