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    It is not the case that A rule forbidding distinctions that imply error collapses into a prohibition on genuine legal development, which contradicts the acknowledged purpose of case-by-case reasoning.

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    • 1.Distinguishing a case need not imply prior error—it can rest on genuinely new circumstances, facts, or legitimate policy considerations instead.
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    • 2.Legal stability and predictability require some constraint on reinterpreting prior cases; unlimited error-correction creates uncertainty and inconsistency.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'doctrinal development' with 'implied error'; systems can evolve forward without retroactively delegitimizing prior sound reasoning.
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    • 1.Legal development requires courts to distinguish prior cases, inevitably treating them differently based on new factual or doctrinal insights.
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    • 2.A rule forbidding distinctions that imply error prevents courts from correcting or refining mistaken legal precedents through incremental evolution.
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    • 3.Case-by-case reasoning is institutionally designed to permit doctrinal change; a blanket prohibition on error-implying distinctions defeats this purpose.
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