Comment by xxpor

>The courts aren’t there to set law, that is for the legislature

I hate this meme. This is explicitly not true in the American legal system, as well as similar systems evolved from the British one.

Case law is just as much part of the law as statutes are.

This is the fundamental difference between common law systems and civil law systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#Common_law_legal_sy...