Precedent used in a sentence

Precedent in a sentence as a noun

This is a very good opinion, tightly argued based on the precedent.

There are years of jurisprudence and years of common law precedent that form the true vision of what the First Amendment means today.

It sets a terrible precedent, and gives Comcast the leverage to bump the price extortionately at the end of the deal.

"Which is to say, the ecosystem of ******* ratholes that have built up over 40 years of poor tool design that cannot be corrected now due to historical precedent.

For your consideration:They allow a patent troll to potentially set a legal precedent for what constitutes a big part of their app infrastructure.

Precedent in a sentence as an adjective

And that sets a very dangerous precedent - for Google to identify and penalize sites based on intent or message would be censorship much worse than just allowing their algorithm to run its course.

The most important part of this to me is that it generates a huge amount of precedent for the Latin American countries such as Uruguay and Guatemala that are considering legalization.

60 millions is pocket change for them, but the precedent this sets will endanger their business in many countries where press is dying and abusing their power to force governments to pass laws that will benefit their old business models very much to the detriment of Google.

Judge Alsup had not disregarded this precedent but had found what in my view were superb ways of treating APIs in particular in a special way that rendered the copying of their SSO non-infringing - to wit, acknowledging that developing an API was even highly creative, a structure of this type, functioning as a method for compatibility only, should not in itself be protected by copyright but should be protected, if at all, only if it rose to the level of warranting patent protection.