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precedentCommon law principle that, in deciding a particular case, judges are bound to follow any applicable principles of law laid down by superior courts in earlier reported cases. |
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| In what is considered an important legal precedent, a Georgia man was found guilty of performing female genital mutilation on his two-year-old daughter. The Long Island resident told The Advocate that Sarafino was a fighter, so she had to sue, even though legal precedent prevents gay people from doing so in a partner's name. Instead, the ruling should "embolden other schools to took a tittle differently at protecting their rights," since there is now a legal precedent, he says. |
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