Oscoda Chapter of PBB Action Committee, Inc. v. Department of Natural Resources

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a three-judge panel is bound by precedent unless it “is clearly irreconcilable with the reasoning or theory of intervening higher authority”
• holding that a published opinion may only be overruled when it is clearly irreconcilable with an intervening higher authority
• holding that social workers are entitled to qualified immunity for actions that “are not functionally similar to prosecutorial or judicial decisions”
• holding that precedent of this court remains binding unless it is “clearly irreconcilable” with intervening Court decisions
• holding that prior circuit authority binds unless its reasoning or theory “is clearly irreconcilable with the reasoning or theory of intervening higher authority”
• holding that a published opinion may only be overruled when it is clearly irreconcilable with an intervening higher authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).