81 F. Supp. 2d 176 - In Re Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
1999
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4 district ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York · Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Kaiser Aetna v. United States · Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago · Sisson v. Ruby
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“the doctrine of stare decisis ought not be ... lightly discarded. Where the Supreme Court has spoken to an issue, it is the duty of the lower federal courts to follow that analysis without regard to arguably changed conditions. Indeed, the First Circuit has ... acknowledged the duty of the lower federal courts to follow the Supreme Court’s “directly applicable precedent, even if that prece dent appears weakened by pronouncements in its subsequent decisions, and to .leave to the [Supreme] Court the prerogative of overruling its own decisions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it ha[d] no choice but to heed the rule of stare decisis and follow Richardson.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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