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Stare Decisis
________ means "letting prior cases stand as binding precedents.
write opinions
Judges decide disputes and ________ justifying their decisions in light of the prevailing legal sources (statutes, cases, scholarly commentary)
Analogies
________ are typically subject to dispute.
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.
Legal reasoning
___________ is bound by a set of conventions, and these conventions are different in every legal culture.
Legal cultures
____________ differ in the way their participants read and argue from prior cases.
Lawyers
____________ argue conflicting points of view.
Judges
______________ decide disputes and write opinions justifying their decisions in light of the prevailing legal sources.
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