Question For Lawyers (Or Anyone)

[BFritz21]

(10-22-2019, 03:56 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Not sure what exactly you mean by this, but if your case established a new rule of law (not a finding of the fact) then it can be challenged any time it is taken up to the Supreme Court.

But the only way it could have established a new rule of law is if it was taken up to at least the Court of Appeals.  Cases from Circuit or Chancery Courts can not be used as precedent to argue an interpretation of the law in a different case.

A judge let the driver's (my old best friend) parents out of the civil case saying that there was no way that they could foresee that he'd drive a car that night.  

We appealed it but it was held up at the local level and then my old man didn't want to take it higher (huge mistake).

A friend of mine that's an attorney says she was on a case and the opposing lawyer used that ruling for their case.  I don't want it to be able to used as a basis to screw any other families in the same way that it screwed mine.