Legal experts said her case would not set a precedent because it was an out-of-court settlement.

法律专家说她的案子不会开创先例，因为是庭外和解。

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But because a court in Liverpool also found him guilty of bigamy and fraud, with all the charges bundled together, his case provides an iffy precedent, if one at all.

该男子目前已被定罪，却是因为利物浦一法院还判定他犯有重婚和诈骗等罪行。这一数罪并罚的案件提供了一个模棱两可的先例，如果也算是一个先例的话。

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No matter how the Court decides this case, it will not be simply by applying past precedent.

不论法院如何判决，它都不会简单地适用过去的先例。

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We think the closest Supreme Court precedent to our case is Wickard v.

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Yahoo's French legal battle might become a precedent-setting case for any business with a Web site that can be accessed by users around the world.

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The precedent of this case could end up being that everyone actively working in a crisis situation needs to lawyer-up in order to protect them from future prosecution.

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