Chapter 4: Legal Reasoning

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Stare Decisis

________ means "letting prior cases stand as binding precedents.

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write opinions

Judges decide disputes and ________ justifying their decisions in light of the prevailing legal sources (statutes, cases, scholarly commentary)

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Analogies

________ are typically subject to dispute.

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stare decisis

Thus, ________ does not bind a court in the United States to apply a decision of the House of Lords or a court in England to apply a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Legal reasoning

___________ is bound by a set of conventions, and these conventions are different in every legal culture.

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Legal cultures

____________ differ in the way their participants read and argue from prior cases.

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Lawyers

____________ argue conflicting points of view.

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Judges

______________ decide disputes and write opinions justifying their decisions in light of the prevailing legal sources.

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