Does a U.S. District judge&#39;s decision set binding horizontal precedent in the same district?
<p>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?</p>

<h2>Precedent at the same level in the court hierarchy’s non-binding</h2>

<p>Only lower courts are bound.</p>

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