2020 Court Decisions Stare Decisis 
Patently O
DECEMBER 11, 2022
This means that issues decided at the district or administrative court level can be binding on all other courts: district courts, administrative courts, appellate courts, and even the Supreme Court. District court decisions are not binding precedent because they are at the bottom. ” Id.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
In the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered at least three decisions on foreign choice of court agreements. [1] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2]
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Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 17, 2020
What I would consider as an ambitious aspect of the book, however, is the authors’ categorical position regarding the non-binding effect of the obiter dicta of some Supreme Court decisions. 7] Chukwuma Samuel Adesina Okoli and Richard Frimpong Oppong, Private International Law in Nigeria Hart Publishing: Oxford, 2020. [8]
JURIST
JUNE 17, 2022
The decision overturns a 2018 ruling which held there is a fundamental right to abortion in Iowa. Planned Parenthood sued to challenge a 2020 law which requires a 24 hour waiting period before an abortion. The court’s ruling comes as Americans wait for a US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Andrus’ decision to end his own life rather than allow the State of Texas to take it came roughly six months after the U.S. Supreme C ourt upheld the very death sentence it had just two years earlier (June 2020) declared unlawful. In its June 2020 decision , the U.S. agree with the dissenting judges below.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The abortion providers’ case relies heavily on stare decisis. In 2020, a record 31 pro-life congresswomen were elected with the support of SBA List. The Texas Heartbeat Act exemplifies lawmakers’ frustration with the status quo and their determination to protect unborn children and mothers. Law professor Helen Alvaré et al.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
I think people are aware of high-profile issues… what the Supreme Court does on abortion, gun rights, affirmative action, but my guess is that people don’t realize that there has been no Supreme Court decision since 1986, 35 years ago, about eyewitness identification. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent?
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