Holy Cow! You mean I've been citing case law in briefs for all these years for no reason? And for centuries courts have been erroneously guided by case law? If only we had known!
Citing an opinion of a US District Court Judge, even if it is eventually published in the Federal Supplement, is not binding on any other court. If the case were to be reviewed by a US circuit, that opinion would be binding on all the districts within the Circuit, but not on any other circuit.
I can't believe any attorney would be so ignorant as to think the opinion of one US District court judge is binding on any other US District Court.
Someone as ignorant as you has no business telling me about case law. If you are such a hotshot legal researcher, I'm sure you can back up your claim that the decision of a single US District Court Judge is binding on other US District Courts. The problem is, you know it isn't true.
Good luck in finding one.
You can cite the Euro courts if you'd like but they, like Jones steroid laced holding, are not authoritarian. Your "cite" wouldn't even bind other judges sitting on the same court and thats the point the guy was making.