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> Any judge in the country based on their own subjective politics can also create a precedent by ruling a certain way, and that single precedent might be used e
by tzs 1y ago
> Any judge in the country based on their own subjective politics can also create a precedent by ruling a certain way, and that single precedent might be used even a hundred years later.
District courts do not create precedent. Precedent comes from appellate courts.
- wnoise 1y agoThey do not create binding precedent. They can create so-called persuasive precedent -- something other courts (and the same district in subsequent opinions) can and do cite when they don't disagree.