Court Decisions Laws Stare Decisis 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2021
Wolf principally argued that stare decisis justifies maintaining the doctrine. Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that “it’s not the strongest stare decisis argument” in light of Supreme Court decisions characterizing the doctrine as a failure. The post Doctrinal “dinosaur” or stare decisis?
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent.
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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 District court decisions are not binding precedent because they are at the bottom.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JULY 30, 2024
By a vote of 6-3, the Court held that Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether a federal agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Written by Orji Agwu Uka, Senior Associate at Africa Law Practice (ALP)*. This is the fifth and final online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. Those pieces of advice and legal representations would have benefitted greatly from a comprehensive private international law treatise.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
Its argument, inter alia , was that by virtue of Article 12 and 13 of their agreement, the Nigerian court had no jurisdiction in this case. GOVERNING LAW: The Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA without regard to the principle of conflicts of any jurisdiction.”.
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. After a lower court ruled the law was unconstitutional, Iowa appealed to the state supreme court.
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