U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Jun. 18, 2015
When is enough enough?
It is important to know which considerations can prompt a judge to decide that a line of precedent should have an endpoint.
2nd Appellate District, Division 5
Brian M. Hoffstadt
Presiding Justice
California Court of Appeal
UCLA School of Law, 1995
By the end of the second "Hobbit" movie, the dwarven heroes of the film had achieved their mission of retaking their underground kingdom by evicting a spiteful dragon. But as one of the dwarves watched the dragon descend upon a nearby city, he asks, "What have we done?"
Judges sometimes ask the same question, although it arises when they are called upon to extend a line of precedent their court set in motion years ago into a new area...
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