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Leading case
(redirected from Landmark decision)

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(Law) a reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved.

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In a landmark decision, Israel's supreme court has thrown out a law allowing privately-run prisons, arguing that running jails for profit would be a "grave" violation of inmates' human rights.
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