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?
Precedent at the same level in the court hierarchy’s non-binding
Only lower courts are bound.
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@DaleM : I wonder if your comment above should be a part of the answer. – Michael Hardy Jun 19 '20 at 23:51