Does a U.S. District judge's decision set binding horizontal precedent in the same district?

Question

Suppose a U.S. district judge in, say, the Southern district of New York writes a decision regarding some legal procedure. Can a different U.S. district judge in the same district write a contradictory decision? Or must he/she respect the precedent of the previous decision even though it did not come from a higher court?

Answer 1

Precedent at the same level in the court hierarchy’s non-binding

Only lower courts are bound.