In a Dispute Between Cosmic Games Corporation and Mythic Engineering

question 17

Essay

In a dispute between Cosmic Games Corporation and Mythic Engineering Associates,Inc.,the court applies the doctrine of stare decisis.What is this doctrine? What does this doctrine have to do with the American le-gal system?

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Definitions:

Social Psychology

A branch of psychology that deals with understanding how individual behavior, feelings, and thoughts are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

Conform

To adjust one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

Behaviors

How an individual or system responds or acts when subjected to outside or inside stimuli.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, known also as the "knew-it-all-along" effect.