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Also absolutely insane that one ruling in one Fed District Court is non-binding to the other Courts. What is the point of having the Supreme Court if courts wh
by uiri 9y ago
Also absolutely insane that one ruling in one Fed District Court is non-binding to the other Courts.
What is the point of having the Supreme Court if courts which are nominally peers of one another are bound by each other's decisions? By having multiple cases with slight variations of the facts involved, the Supreme Court gets multiple data points upon which to base their decision which is then binding for the whole country.
- bonesss 9y agoFrom the article, and I'm no expert: they referred to that other court as a "sister court". My take on that was that those courts reside on the same legal 'tier' so neither one really dictates for the other, SCOTUS is the point of final arbitration.