Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed law also contains a provision that if any sections of the law are held to be invalid, all other sections of the law are to remain in effect...
...hear Saddam Hussein tell it, he and the leaders of Israel are involved in similar altercations with the United Nations over real estate. In most respects, the comparison is as invalid as it is invidious. Most, but alas...
...government should determine that these arguments are invalid? Simple: just change the order. That can be done "at the whim of the President," says Michael Glennon, professor of law at the University of California at Davis. Capitol Hill sources assert that President Bush could issue a rewritten order, or, more likely, an "exception" to the standing one, and legally keep it secret. The only way to prevent that would be to write a prohibition against assassinations into law. After congressional investigations in the 1970s turned up evidence of CIA-sponsored assassination plots, attempts were made to enact such...
Jerusalem then moved its campaign to New York City, where St. Martin's Press had begun shipping the book to stores last week. A judge granted an order blocking publication, which First Amendment experts immediately labeled an invalid exercise of prior restraint. A four-judge appeals panel promptly agreed, lifting the order the next day and noting that since books had been shipped to 1,500 wholesalers, suppression was a practical impossibility. By the end of the week, a tidal wave of new orders prompted St. Martin's to + increase the print run to 200,000, practically guaranteeing that...
Tolis said that the council's business--including a vote to hold a College-wide referendum on divestment next fall--was technically invalid unless ratified by a quorum, but added that the council would proceed with the referendum and other actions anyway...