What is the test for re-examining an issue previously decided by the same court or a higher court?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Lopez v. Peterson, No. 2:98-cv-2111-LKK EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2013):

12. Under the law of the case doctrine, "a court is ordinarily precluded from reexamining an issue previously decided by the same court, or a higher court, in the same case." United States v. Bad Marriage, 439 F.3d 534, 538 (9th Cir. 2006). A prior decision should be followed unless (1) the decision is clearly erroneous and its enforcement would work a manifest injustice; (2) intervening controlling authority makes reconsideration appropriate; or (3) substantially different evidence was adduced at a subsequent trial. Hegler v. Borg, 50 F.3d 1472, 1475 (9th Cir. 1995).

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