The county executive, Steve Levy, above, who vetoed the bill, called the issue valid but disputed provisions of the bill as inconsistent.
Most free sites simply ask the visitor to state their age before entering the site, but this easily circumventable check will not be valid under the provisions being looked at by the government.
Nowhere is a testamentary provision valid if its enforcement would be shocking to public morals.
As an assessment of seemingly intractable white prejudices, Lincoln's supposition that African-Americans would simply want to go elsewhere might appear valid; his administration's provisions to that end laudable.
However, without a valid coverage formula, these provisions are unenforceable.
For the dissent, this proved critical: It is not clear what portion of the statute the Court upholds since it expressly refuses to decide whether the dues prohibition and fund administration provisions are valid.
Mr. Davis argued to a special three-judge Federal District Court here that the disclosure requirements placed an unconstitutional and "unilateral" burden on his right to political expression, and further that there was no constitutionally valid rationale for the provision that he called "unique in the history of campaign finance jurisprudence".
Arizona argues that because federal law does not explicitly prohibit the state provisions, they are valid unless Congress implicitly intended to bar such measures.
Although such language often has been included in contracts -- usually in cases when fledgling musicians have little bargaining power -- many musicians and their lawyers have questioned whether the work-for-hire provisions were ever valid under the copyright law.
This is the nub of the reasoning: The Court held that, in their operation with respect to the challenged funding agreement and the challenged payments made under that agreement, none of the challenged provisions is a valid law of the Commonwealth.
"The court held that, in their operation with respect to the challenged funding agreement and the challenged payments made under that agreement, none of the challenged provisions is a valid law of the commonwealth," the high court said in a judgment summary.
