De Farco

From typo to coinage, Scott Lemieux defines a "de farco overruling" of a precedent as "A case, such as Carhart II, in which the Court makes a farcically trivial or specious distinction in order to avoid formally overruling a precedent."

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/07/de-farco/42984/