Joel Brandes at the New York State Court of Appeals in September 2016 in Albany, New York. (Photo/Hans Pennink) “Stare decisis” means “to stand by things decided.” (Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th ed.

The operation of stare decisis in our judicial system has received some attention lately given the recent major decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court overturned long-standing ...

In the legal world of today, courts generally follow a judicial doctrine of stare decisis, a judicial doctrine that did not exist in the medieval world. Stare decisis was universally ...

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If you were going to write a ridiculous piece of fiction that no one in the industry would believe the plot would start with the United States Supreme Court citing stare decisis in a patent case. But ...