lower court

“In a case where a group of Latino employees at Avis Rent A Car was subjected to repeated racial slurs in the workplace by another employee, the lower court found that Avis, in allowing this to go on, had created a hostile environment.”

Remarks of U.S. Senator Barack Obama on the nomination of Justice Janice Rogers Brown

“Western Europe, because of the wide dissemination of the Code Napoléon, but Spanish law (which has influ - enced South America) provides that a lower court is obliged to follow a principle expressed in two judg - ments of the highest court.”

LEGAL PRECEDENT

“However, subject to possible qualifications with regard to precedents of the Bundesverfassungs - gericht (“Constitutional Court”), in Germany no higher court's decision in theory binds a lower court in a subsequent case, and no court is precluded from over - ruling its own decisions.”

LEGAL PRECEDENT