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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

“The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent. She argued the Court has offered no “special justification,” as required, for breaking from the precedent set in Mille r and has therefore circumvented stare decisis , the legal principle that states the court must follow previous precedents.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

SCOTUSBlog

Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. In favor of stare decisis. Legislative authority.