Take the Court's decision earlier this month in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, in which Chief Justice John Roberts's opinion for the five-to-four majority invalidated over-all limits on campaign contributions.
By the day's end, some 19,000 ballots would be invalidated because voters had punched them twice and another 3,000 votes would be cast by voters who feared that they had mistakenly selected the Reform Party candidate, Patrick J. Buchanan, over Mr. Gore.
It was then invalidated by Facebook.
"The Supreme Court had invalidated one segregation scheme after another, no matter how well it worked": over and over, she deadpans her way through lines like that, not to mention through the entire antic setup of "Mislaid".
The expected (happier) ending would have invalidated the whole tragic build up over the course of the novel.
Surveying the history of the death penalty, Alito added that while methods of execution (from hanging to electrocution, firing squads, lethal gas and injections) have changed over the years, the Supreme Court "has never invalidated a State's chosen procedure".
Other crisis-driven rulings, like the 6-to-3 decision that invalidated President Harry S. Truman's seizure of the steel industry in 1952 over dissenters who included two Truman appointees, are not viewed so favorably by students of the court.
Over a four-month period in 2008 federal judges invalidated parts of two Abbott patents and declared that Nova did not infringe a third patent; a fourth was declared invalid in a jury trial.
Cruz had inched ahead in recent opinion polls but appeared to have stumbled when Trump raised questions over whether his birth to a US mother in Canada invalidated his right to serve as president.
The regulation the court invalidated was known as the migratory bird rule, because it asserted jurisdiction over waters that were or could be used by birds that cross state lines or that are protected by international treaties.
