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Originally Posted by kane
The road map is the biggest part of all of this. With each victory like this it makes more legal precedence and will show other people how to do this in order to protect their content. It also gives future judges a guide that they can follow.
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Precedent constitutes the starting-point of judges' reasoning. Most of the time, judges look closely to precedent for purposes of legal certainty and for fear that their decisions might be challenged before higher instances. In international law, the stare decisis rule has been excluded since 1922, but permanent jurisdictions constantly refer to their previous decisions.
However the doctrine of stare decisis, to my knowledge, has nothing to do with out of court settlements.