Legislatures can override judicial common-law principles by statute.

Evidence

The development of product liability law during the third regime also reveals that common-law policymaking takes place within the context of state politics. State legislators can by statute overturn legal principles enunciated by judges and redirect the course of common law. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3539

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates separation-of-powers as a dialogue rather than a one-shot hierarchy; connects to the course’s treatment of judges as policymakers.
• BMF: Not applicable; no exact library match — but the legislative-override dynamic parallels the institutional jockeying in Vidal’s Eighteen Seventy, where congressional action constrains judicial and executive claims.