Sentence examples for law invalid from inspiring English sources

Section 4 allows courts to declare legislation to be incompatible with the act but this does not make the law invalid.

A reminder: Courts have the right and duty to declare a law invalid when it conflicts with the Constitution.

This decision was reversed by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which held the law invalid.

The three justices who remain had written a concurring opinion in the case in which they found the law invalid merely because it did not pass with the two-thirds majority needed to alter the state constitution's voting requirements.

In Mehta v. City of Salisbury (1961), a case challenging the racial segregation of a public swimming pool, Beadle decided that apartheid made precedents in South African case law invalid, ruled that the plaintiff's dignity had been unlawfully affronted, and awarded him damages.

Unlike most other supreme courts, the Law Lords will not have the power to rule laws invalid or unconstitutional.

But Judge Motz wrote that states cannot grant themselves standing to challenge federal laws simply by passing legislation that declares those laws invalid.

Justice Lynn Smith declared the laws invalid, but also suspended her ruling for one year to give Canada's federal Parliament time to draft legislation with her ruling in mind.

In allowing the suit challenging the New York laws to go to trial, Judge Richard Berman cited United States Supreme Court cases that declared states' laws invalid if their purpose was "mere economic protectionism," which of course is the fundamental purpose of the laws being challenged.

While it's disappointing that the high court didn't rule the laws invalid, it did rule that the new police powers are subject to the normal limits that apply to police arrest and detention powers, contrary to the attorney general's purpose.

They are indeed more supreme than ordinary laws, for Congressional laws are invalid if they do not conform to the Constitution, whereas treaty laws can override the Constitution".