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case law

NOUN
precedental law
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And I can say there’s not a lot of case law on this issue.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

Immediately afterwards, legal experts questioned whether there is the case law to back this up.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

In deciding the case, involving Texas’ election law, he and his law clerks had sifted through hundreds of thousands of exhibits, reviewed testimony from more than 70 witnesses and researched relevant case law.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Normally, Colorado case law takes a relatively capacious view of how a crime’s “gravity” should be measured.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

In fact, there was no case law cited in the entire order:

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson




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