In 1992,the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in a case entitled Goodman v.Wenco Foods,Inc.,that when a substance in food causes injury to a consumer of the food,it is not a bar to recovery against the seller that the substance was natural to the food.If,in a 2010 case involving a consumer's injury caused by a fish bone in a bowl of fish chowder,the court followed the decision in Goodman v.Wenco Foods,Inc.,the court's action in the second case is an example of:

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The court's action in the second case, where it followed the decision in Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc., is an example of stare decisis. Stare decisis is a legal principle that requires courts to adhere to precedent and to follow the decisions of higher courts in similar cases. In this case, the court followed the precedent set by the North Carolina Supreme Court in Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc. and applied the same principle to the current case.

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