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I think it's a little more complicated than that. You can have precedent when courts follow fellow courts' decisions. The supreme court just has the final say.
by s3p 3y ago
I think it's a little more complicated than that. You can have precedent when courts follow fellow courts' decisions. The supreme court just has the final say. Also, even if SCOTUS rules one way, it can just overrule itself a few years later if it wants to (like it did in the summer).
- AnthonyMouse 3y ago> You can have precedent when courts follow fellow courts' decisions. They're not required to do that and when it comes to nonsense results like trying to reconcile the different outcomes in Epic v. Apple and Epic v. Google, they're going to have a think and then make their own decision. > Also, even if SCOTUS rules one way, it can just overrule itself a few years later if it wants to (like it did in the summer). That wasn't a few years, it was half a century, and in general they try to avoid that. The case you're referring to was quite possibly the most controversial case in living memory.