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2007-02-23 |
CARPIO MORALES, J. |
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| By the immediately cited ruling, this Court laid down a jurisprudential precedent that must be applied in the present case in accordance with the doctrine of stare decisis et non quieta movere. Follow past precedents and do not disturb what has been settled. A point of law, once established by the court, will generally be followed by the same court and by all courts of lower rank in subsequent cases in which the same legal issue is raised. Stare decisis proceeds from the first principle of justice that, absent powerful countervailing considerations, like cases ought to be decided alike.[28] | |||||