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Depends on the judges involved.

• indymike 4y ago
  Has nothing to do with judges, and the fact the US adopted English common law and evolved it's judiciary from there.
  • Retric 4y ago
    In theory sure, in practice the legal system is run by people who somewhat regularly make technically incorrect decisions.
  • zopa 4y ago
    To be a little pedantic, individual states maintained systems based on English common law, rather than the US as a whole adopting it. There’s famously no such thing as Federal common law. This matters in Louisiana, which has a civil and not a common law system, dating from the French period.