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Question $3$

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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 $2008$ 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

criminal law.

statutory law.

public law.

stare decisis.

See section $1-1$a$.$ Which source of law is it and what is the defining principle of that source?