precedent

He has scoured the global legal literature for examples that could serve as precedents for applying legislation to dark skies.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, a former Bush White House attorney, wrote Monday the Guantanamo precedent calls for invoking the right to habeas corpus for the detained Venezuelans.

Legal experts said there was little precedent for Hochman to try to claw back Gascón’s motion, though he has every right to add his own position to the record.

Deals between Reform UK and the Conservatives to share power locally would not be without precedent.

“There is little historical precedent for this sort of rapid experimentation in tariff-setting, where tariffs are declared one day and dropped the next, or applied to all products from a country,” he said.