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The Linchpin Framework of Adjudication

In the essay, Is Stare Decisis A Sand Castle? (2012), F.E. Guerra-Pujol details how judges possess the discretionary authority to bind and unbundle similar previous court cases. The legal scholarship is in sync with Guerra-Pujol's observations; horizontal stare decisis does not effectively limi...

By Peter Clark