As the Supreme Court has been debating judicial adherence to the doctrine of stare decisis recently, it bears remembering that litigants seeking a change in the law applicable to their case should ...

“Were they not telling the truth?” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of Supreme Court justices who told Congress they respected precedent. Grilled on camera in a hearing room on Capitol Hill, Supreme ...

It is a central principle of law: Courts are supposed to follow earlier decisions – precedent – to resolve current disputes. But it’s inevitable that sometimes, the precedent has to go, and a court ...

It is a central principle of law: Courts, including the Supreme Court, are supposed to follow earlier decisions – precedent – to resolve current disputes. But on rare occasions, Supreme Court justices ...

The law is harsh, but it is the law: so says the AI judge in a recent study from the University of Chicago Law School. The study analysed the differences between AI and human legal decision-making, ...

Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of a leaked draft of a decision that would appear to place the future of abortion rights, and in ...

In his account of why people, and nations, lie about their conduct in war, the political philosopher Michael Walzer observed: “Wherever we find hypocrisy, we also find moral knowledge.” The hypocrite ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — Rulings from the Supreme Court hold enormous weight because unlike bills from Congress or executive orders from the president, their effectiveness is not dependent on the current ...

Although Supreme Court justices are by no means bound by their past decisions, they often respect them, for a variety of reasons. Justice Elena Kagan offered her reasons for remaining faithful to ...

When a party fails to comply with a condition precedent, especially if such a provision includes a time limit for the fulfilment of the obligation, it will often advance various arguments to avoid the ...