Mr. Baker cited a Federal rule allowing the lifting of an injunction if there has been a subsequent significant change in decisional law.

The issue arose again in 1997, at the Capital District O.T.B. in Albany, when the attorney general reiterated, "Under our opinion and decisional law, a contract for a fixed term is unauthorized."

Before the twentieth century, evidence law was largely the product of decisional law.

"New Jersey has the richest body of decisional law in the world in these matters," he said, "yet we may be the last of our sister states to adopt living-will legislation."

This review must not be a rubber stamp; there must be evidence in the state's decisional law that the court takes seriously its responsibility to ensure that the sentence imposed was not arbitrary.

Statutory and constitutional law forms the framework within which these disputes are resolved, to some extent, but decisional law developed through the resolution of specific disputes is the great engine of water law.

"They have blatantly misrepresented decisional law and key aspects of their vector-control program," he said.

Even to Patrice, he has never admitted that in the last nine and a half years he has decided two cases this way, albeit both tiny civil matters in which the decisional law was a hopeless mess.

The trial process and evolving decisional law serve not only to adjudicate guilt or innocence, but also to delineate doctrine and circumscribe behavior.

Judicial access decisional law'.