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For the benefit of the uninitiated let me say that lawyers, deluded or not, overwhelmingly believe that with the exception of constitutions and of statutes enacted by legislatures (and rules under them), precedent is what the law is made of in the United States; that the law existed before written language in the tradition of “customs that runneth not to the contrary’ and continues to thrive in the printed decisions; that the statutes themselves remain unsettled until rounded out by precedent; that precedents may become so venerable as to become platitudes but may also be as fresh as the undried ink on today's appellate court decision; and that when a lawyer searches for as recent a decision as he can find, in a jurisdiction as near as possible, on facts as close to his client's case as possible, never overruled or modified, and pronouncing the law as clearly as possible, he is doing what he should be doing and might well be guilty of malpractice for failing to do so.
Although the wording of constitutional equal protection clauses varies from state to state, and Vermont's interpretation is not a binding precedent, judges often look to courts in other states for guidance on how to rule in similar circumstances.
Interestingly, there is precedent for an ion channel to retain some intersubunit interactions even on denaturing gels like those used here.
A humanitarian catastrophe without precedent."
A more appealing aspect of Posner's philosophy is his belief that judges base their opinions on "guesses" and personal ideology, while hiding behind a veil of precedent.
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