The Senate declared his legislation invalid on technical grounds.
Some consideration was given to having it declared invalid on the grounds that it was unconstitutional as well as a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, but in the end the government agreed to allow the referendum to go forward, probably in the hope that it would be roundly defeated and thereby become a symbol of Swiss open-mindedness.
As the document later points out, some of Honeywell's older patents are invalid on the grounds that even older patent applications were abandoned when prior art was discovered.
The Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act, and also rendered invalid (on procedural grounds) Proposition 8 in California.
If laws are made to give effect to the Directive Principles over Fundamental Rights, they shall not be invalid on the grounds that they take away the Fundamental Rights.
Article 31C, added by the 25th Amendment in 1971, provided that any law made to give effect to the Directive Principles in Article 39(b)–(c) would not be invalid on the grounds that they derogated from the Fundamental Rights conferred by Articles 14, 19 and 31.
The constitutional court upheld opposition arguments that a first round of balloting to elect Mr Gul had been invalid, on the ground that parliament lacked a quorum, forcing Mr Erdogan to call fresh elections four months ahead of schedule.Turkey's friends agree that as a seasoned diplomat with determinedly pro-Western views, Mr Gul would make a fine head of state.
In its opinion on behalf of Mr. Echazabal, the Ninth Circuit found the regulation invalid on the ground that Congress had made an explicit decision "not to include threats to one's own health or safety in the direct threat defense".
In the United States, however, oppositions are relatively rare — in large part because if the challenger loses the hearing and then tries to challenge the patent in court, she cannot assert that it is invalid on any ground he raised or "could have raised" during the opposition.
Following Adams, Nelson (2009) also argues that S4 and S5 are invalid on strict actualist grounds.
