Legal

What is Good Law?

A decision or statute that is still valid: not overturned, reversed or repealed. Lawyers confirm it with a citator before relying on a source, since an AI tool may cite one that no longer stands.

vol. 3 still good law · vol. 5 overturned

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A case is good law when it…

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The case Luis found with the assistant was real, but the citator showed it was no longer good law after a higher court reversed it.

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The carriage scans the later volumes for anything that overturns the two cited ones. A tab on volume 8 overturns volume 5, whose signal arm drops; nothing touches volume 3, and its arm stays up.

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Using your legal AI tool, list every case cited in this practice memo and what I must check to confirm each is still good law: later appeals, reversals and repeals. Do not call a case valid without a source I can open.

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