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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: how independent are the federal circuits?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.013823.967@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:38:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.181008.22679@gtx.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan25.181008.22679@gtx.uucp> al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski) writes:
- >
- >what is the effect of a circuit court of appeals decision on similar
- >cases that subsequently come to federal district courts outside of that
- >circuit? is the appellate court ruling usable as precedent in the same
- >way that a decision from inside the circuit would be, or is it somehow
- >less binding?
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- It's "persuasive" (term of art), but not "binding precedent."
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