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• v  declare invalid
• v  make invalid for use
• v  show to be invalid
• v  take away the legal force of or render ineffective
• s  establishing as invalid or untrue

• Biden says he disagrees with Supreme Court rulings invalidating a portion of the Violence Against Women Act, which he wrote.
• And "invalidating" the labor contract would reduce that 10% by a few percent, so what is the savings there, really, compared to other measures that might actually have a chance of .
• If the Supreme Court decides in Boumedienne's favor, other Guantanamo defendants could gain similar rights, invalidating rules currently in force at the military tribunals.

• invalidate
• annul
• quash
• void
• avoid
• nullify
• cancel
• vitiate
• disconfirming

• validate

News & Articles

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• Judge in Verizon records case threw out Obamacare
  Roger Vinson, the federal judge who approved the Obama administration's secret collection of telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the U.S., made waves two years ago with a sweeping ruling invalidating President Barack Obama's health care law.
  June 7, 2013 - Denver Post
• Judge behind phone records threw out Obamacare
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Vinson, the federal judge who approved the Obama administration's secret collection of telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the U.S., made waves two years ago with a sweeping ruling invalidating President Barack Obama's health care law.        
  June 6, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Judge who ordered collection of telephone records threw out Obamacare in 2011
  WASHINGTON — Roger Vinson, the federal judge who approved the Obama administration's secret collection of telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the U.S., made waves two years ago with a sweeping ruling invalidating President Barack Obama's health care law.
  June 6, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Sandra Day O Connor in Washington Post
  In invalidating some of the existing checks on campaign spending, the majority in Citizens United has signaled that the problem of campaign contributions in judicial elections might get considerably worse and quite soon,O'Connor said at a...
• Aquilino Pimentel Jr in GMA news.tv
  The Supreme Court ruling invalidating their conversion from municipalities into cities is good for the rule of law...... We legislators should carefully adhere to the requirements of the law,Pimentel said.
• Glenn T. Harrell, Jr. in Daily Record (subscription)
  Therefore, to break the Jim Crow cartel, there were only two options: (1) a federal law invalidating Jim Crow laws, along with a massive federal takeover of local government by the federal government to prevent violence and extralegal harassment of... David Bernstein http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bernstein_(law_professor)&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHFLi3mLG7zN_9kmGL955TBFb_tfg AOL News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/rand-pauls-position-on-civil-rights-too-hot-even-for-liberatarian-stalwarts/19485872&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAQBGikm2-gIkv7OMiWgYhliYELw May 20, 2010 53405 70410 invalidation The Legislature has not amended the law to permit a victim, based on a violation of the victim's rights, to seek invalidation of an otherwise legal sentence," Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr. wrote for the unanimous court. "The victims' rights...