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Originally Posted by fjtorres

Maybe not the UK but in the US a growing number of judges have taken to invoking internationap (mostly EU and UK) law when they don't like existing US precedents. It goes all the way to the SCOTUS.

https://www.cato.org/blog/use-misuse...-law-us-courts

http://opiniojuris.org/2010/08/02/ju...-adjudication/

And, of course, both EU and Canadian courts have issued rulings intended to apply beyond their borders into the US.

So foreign rulings like these bear watching. They might be coming to a court near you.

The flip side is that the current direction of US courts seems to repudiate the internationalist bend of some judges over the years.