The Court's action today did not set a legal precedent.

There was, he thought, little legal precedent to fall back on.

And they did point out there may not be any legal precedent for this.

Given its date, there is little available legal precedent (particularly in American law).

There appears to be a legal precedent for such a suit.

He had a traditional view of the law, and was unwilling to set new legal precedent.

President Bush is not only taking on legal precedents, but historical ones as well.

Both sides of the case said the situation had few legal precedents.

It was a legal precedent, if not a very reassuring one.

"There is legal precedent for using campaign contributions," she said.

For example, let us take love itself as a test case.

Here are some test cases of what's to come in Congress.

I'm not out there saying I want to be the test case.

You had to wait for Nature to come up with a test case.

So he'd actually be a good test case for this.

"They do not want to be part of some test case."

And he will do it only if you pass your test case.

Which is too bad, since it's actually an interesting test case.

It is likely that a test case will be brought on this issue.

He has said his efforts in the capital would be a "test case."

Thus, the judicial precedent is ambiguous in its applicability to other situations.

The application of state and federal statutes may be modified by judicial precedent.

Under the Finnish legal system a judicial precedent is not binding.

The use of judicial precedent had substantial effect on Hindu law.

"The judge strayed from judicial precedents in this area," he said.

The answer to that question will soon provide another piece of key judicial precedent for these types of cases.

This tension is especially interesting in common law, which depend on judicial precedent.

Laws which are derived from cases, by the process known as judicial precedent, form the common law.

This 1978 judicial precedent is not the last word on surrogacy in Britain.

But, quoting judicial precedents, he wrote, "The government has no power to restrict such activity because of its message."

Court precedent suggests that they could have lost their jobs.

"Aren't you asking us to overturn fifty years of Court precedent?"

They correct the most nettlesome aspects of campaign financing by building on court precedent.

Until such a document is passed, students will have to file law suits citing court precedents form other states.

Many states have also established court precedents which provide protection to journalists, usually based on constitutional arguments.

But lawyers for the realty group say that both the state housing division and court precedent support its use of the clause.

For this reason students in the United States must rely on court precedents to know what they may expect from their institutions of higher education.

The result is a haphazard patchwork of state laws and Federal court precedents.

Under court precedents, the existence of discrimination in a general sense is not sufficient to justify an affirmative action program.

All four considered the same legislative provisions, constitutional clauses and court precedents.