But twice in the last 15 years, the court has invalidated laws that used the Commerce Clause to justify the regulation of noneconomic activity, like restrictions on carrying guns near schools.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli Supreme Court has invalidated a law that exempted from military service ultra-Orthodox Jews engaged in religious studies, adding a new urgency to the government's negotiations with religious parties over a more equitable distribution of the burdens of citizenship.
A federal appeals court had found DOMA unconstitutional, and while the Supreme Court has nearly complete discretion to choose the cases it wants to decide, the justices feel obliged to review a decision that has invalidated a federal statute.
Since 2010, Shanghai's arbitration board has invalidated two variable interest entities that had been used by foreign companies to control onshore businesses.
During a seminar at another institution several years ago, university paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother classifying organisms according to their physical appearance, let alone analyze their evolutionary dynamics, when molecular techniques had already invalidated that approach?
Judge J. L. Edmondson asked if the jurors in the original trial had been given alternate ways to convict Mr. Siegelman and Mr. Scrushy, and suggested that if some of those grounds for conviction had been invalidated, "that's problematic".
Observers criticize the Lithuanian Army, which had been consuming some 20% of the state budget, for not staging even a symbolic resistance that would have invalidated Soviet claims that the takeover was a "socialist revolution" and a legitimate change of government.
In a similar vein, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, also last week, voided a lower-court decision that had invalidated the District's ban on concealed weapons.
In January, a federal appeals court overturned a trial court decision that had invalidated Nassau County's strip-search policy, in which misdemeanor detainees were indiscriminately strip-searched.
Instead it told the District Court that had invalidated the plan on a 2-to-1 vote to re-examine the case and pay more attention to the views of minority lawmakers in the state who had endorsed the plan.
