Precedents Quotes

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. - Sandra Day O'Connor

We're going to take into account the status of the relief and rescue efforts in Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast and apply league policies and precedents in as much of an extent as possible. NFL teams play their games outside their home stadiums either in another NFL city or in a city in their home territory. There is no precedent for playing any games in a non-NFL city. - Joe Browne

We need to be careful about the precedents we're setting on caps for charter schools. We need to look at the caps as a whole. - Brenda Brown

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. - Doug Coupland

We don't feel the punishment is consistent with the past precedents established by previous NCAA cases. The NCAA has tried to become a more student-friendly organization, but this direction is a significant step away from that. - Mitch Barnhart

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. - Irving R. Kaufman

To follow foolish precedents, and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think. - William Cowper

This sends a strong signal that the FTC is on the beat. They have the authority to help establish some (legal) precedents that will help steer the market toward better practices. - Deirdre Mulligan

This logic represents a fundamental challenge to the principles on which, however imperfectly, world peace and stability have rested for the last 58 years... My concern is that, if it were adopted, it could set precedents that resulted in a proliferation of the unilateral and lawless use of force, with or without credible justification. - Kofi Annan