Question

In a 1992 case entitled Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc., the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that when a substance in food causes injury to someone consuming the food, just because the substance was natural to the food will not bar recovery against the seller of the food. If, in a 2019 case involving a consumer’s injury caused by a fish bone in a bowl of fish chowder, the court follows the decision in Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc., the court's action in the second case is an example of _________.a) in rem jurisdiction

b) federal law
c) res judicata
d) legislative stasis
e) stare decisis

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter "E": stare decisis.

Step-by-step explanation:

Stare decisis is a legal practice that implies reviewing similar decisions on previous cases than the one judges can have in front of them to determine the verdict of their current cases. The previous cases must have taken place in similar circumstances and be precedent of Courts of similar jurisdictions.