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Ipso facto is a Latin term meaning �by the fact itself� �by that very fact or act� or �for this fact alone�. The following are some examples of ipso facto used in a legal context:

1. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court of the United States stated in its opinion, �As our jurisprudence relating to all liberties save perhaps abortion has recognized, not every law which makes a right more difficult to exercise is, ipso facto, an infringement of that right.�
2. In Shapiro v. United States, Justice Frankfurter stated in his dissent, �If records merely because required to be kept by law ipso facto become public records, we are indeed living in glass houses.�