Sentence examples for invalidate the statute from inspiring English sources

And if that's enough to invalidate the statute, then you should invalidate the statute.

The mere fact that § 9 is geared to appellants' pricing policies in other States is not sufficient to invalidate the statute.

If the argument is sound, it was equally applicable to Austin's case, in which the statute, which made no limitation of taxation to the place where he bank was located, must have been held void under any principle which would wholly invalidate the statute of New York, because the latter did not allow the deduction of the owner's indebtedness from his shares.

Second, the court held that, Congress' addition of the words "except as otherwise provided by law," did not invalidate the statute's applicability to patent venue cases.

The Court upheld the legislation in an 8-1 vote - conservative Justice Thomas was the lone dissent - but as the Wonk Room's Ian Millhiser notes, the Roberts-led Court may be threatening to "invalidate the statute" if Congress doesn't alter the Voting Rights Act soon.

But instead of ordering Jefferson to return it, Marshall invalidated the statute that gave the Supreme Court jurisdiction over the case.

About the flag-burning case, Ms. Kagan wrote in 1996 that "the court, in invalidating the statute, made the correct decision".

The Supreme Court invalidated the statute, relying heavily on the remarkable claim that its power to say what the Constitution means automatically trumps any competing interpretive authority.

While upholding the health care law's individual mandate, the court invalidated the statute's carrot-and-stick approach to inducing the states to extend Medicaid eligibility to millions of the near-poor.

It is no basis for fashioning a further brand of "overbreadth" and invalidating the statute on its face, thus forbidding its application to identifiable conduct that is within the state's power to sanction.

In Montana, the Firearms Freedom Act, passed in 2009, purports to exempt any gun manufactured and kept within the state from federal regulations; despite a federal appellate court decision last month invalidating the statute, it has served as a model for new or pending laws in more than a half-dozen states.