Once Appellate Decisions Are Published, They Become __________ That Guide

question 34

Multiple Choice

Once appellate decisions are published, they become __________ that guide the decisions of other judges in the same circuit.

• A) amendments
• B) laws
• C) briefs
• D) opinions
• E) precedents

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Definitions:

Semantics

The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning, including the relations between words, phrases, signs, and symbols and what they stand for.

Syntax

The set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, especially in terms of word order and agreement.

Phonology

The branch of linguistics that studies the sound systems of languages and their function in communication.

Regularization

In machine learning, a technique used to prevent overfitting by adding a penalty on the magnitude of model coefficients.