“Stare decisis” means “to stand by things decided.” (Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th ed. 2019). Stare decisis is the doctrine ...

The core of the doctrine is that the ratio decidendi (the legal reasoning essential to the decision) of a higher court's ju ...

In its ruling today in Gamble v.United States, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 7 to 2, affirmed 170 years of precedent applying the dual-sovereignty doctrine to the Fifth Amendment’s Double ...

Most importantly, the doctrine of the super-precedent is entirely a judicial invention with no constitutional warrant. The Court now is in no way obliged to honor it, although it can’t help but ...

Rules and regulations for everything from climate change to labor rights to net neutrality will now face much stricter ...