Of all of the strategies judges can use when they dislike a higher court’s policy decision, ____ is used the most rarely.
a. defiance
b. avoiding having to apply the policy by declaring a portion of the higher court decision to be dicta
c. applying the policy as narrowly as possible
d. ruling that a precedent is not controlling because of factual differences between the higher court case and the one before the lower court
a. defiance
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