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r00fus
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Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Ameri...
Only in a country with jurisprudence. Not all countries hold that court decisions require following court decisions to respect previous decisions (ie, legal precedent).
salawat
on Sept 3, 2020
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Stare decisis isn't a hill our legal system is 100% committed to dying on either. Precedent can be vacated as public sentiment changes.
xxpor
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See the common vs civil law comment at the end. No idea how the other major legal systems like sharia work though.
r00fus
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Jurisprudence isn't even uniform through Europe. IIRC, in France they don't consider precedent nearly as much as the US.
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