· 7/1/1946
Protest 810124-G of Kolmar, Inc.
Citations
- 16 Cust. Ct. 280
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a court should only overturn prec- edent that is “plainly wrong”—“a rigorous standard, sat- isfied only in exceptional circumstances”
- stating that we will only overturn prior precedent where it is “‘plainly wrong,’ a rigorous standard grounded in presumptive fidelity to stare decisis”
- explaining that we will overrule our own prior construction of a statute only when it is “plainly wrong”
- explaining that we do not “lightly overrule our precedents, including those con- struing statutes” and adhere to the “plainly wrong” require- ment to do so
- explaining that the plainly wrong standard is “a rigorous standard grounded in presumptive fidelity to stare decisis”
- explaining that a party seeking to have one of our prior decisions overruled must demonstrate that the prior decision was “plainly wrong”
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