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Case law says that a person has a right to privacy.
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There were not two centuries of case law arguing over the inherent humanity and rights of farm boys from Idaho.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
Even Cox, who has established seminal case law in California on behalf of parents and families, questioned Santa Clara County’s deference to parents’ rights.
—Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
Successful candidates could expect to cross-examine witnesses, research case law and write briefs — with a starting salary that topped out at roughly $221,000.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
The judge was astute enough to immediately question any attorney asserting something about the law and probing what case law supported their posture.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
From professing their love and desire to be human, to hallucinating case law, check out the slideshow above for some of the biggest AI chatbot blunders — so far.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
But Elson says Delaware will still have an advantage because of its 100-plus years of case law.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
The government is uniquely vulnerable to this kind of drift because our laws and regulations comprise vast amounts of messy, unstructured data scattered across countless different statute books and tomes of case law.
—Carolyn Parent, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
With total recall of case law, an LLM could include dozens of cases.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
Even Cox, who has established seminal case law in California on behalf of parents and families, questioned Santa Clara County’s deference to parents’ rights.
—Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
Successful candidates could expect to cross-examine witnesses, research case law and write briefs — with a starting salary that topped out at roughly $221,000.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
The judge was astute enough to immediately question any attorney asserting something about the law and probing what case law supported their posture.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
From professing their love and desire to be human, to hallucinating case law, check out the slideshow above for some of the biggest AI chatbot blunders — so far.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
But Elson says Delaware will still have an advantage because of its 100-plus years of case law.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
The government is uniquely vulnerable to this kind of drift because our laws and regulations comprise vast amounts of messy, unstructured data scattered across countless different statute books and tomes of case law.
—Carolyn Parent, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
With total recall of case law, an LLM could include dozens of cases.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
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1731, in the meaning defined above
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case law
noun
: law established by judicial decisions in cases as distinguished from law created by legislation
called also decisional law
see also common law
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