Learn how stare decisis influences court decisions by requiring adherence to prior rulings. Understand this legal doctrine ...

The conservative justice wants to overturn cases wrongly decided in his view. Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should take a more critical approach to settled precedent, saying decided ...

The prior-panel-precedent rule allows federal appellate courts to avoid considering “difficult arguments” and “to do its work with fewer judges more quickly,” said a legal scholar who is not involved ...

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the president's sweeping attempt to gut the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of ...