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When the highest power decides yesterday's verdict was a typo worth correcting.
means Reversed or canceled by a higher authority, leaving the original decision void and powerless.
from Literally to turn something over, from Middle English — flipping a cart, then later flipping a ruling, a regime, or a precedent flat on its back.
Legal weightHigher courts overturn lower ones, rarely the reverse.
Physics firstBoats and carts overturned long before rulings did.
Precedent ruleOverturning settled law requires unusually strong justification.