Boeing Co. v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \It is the rule [under Washington law] that an invalid statute is a nullity. It is as inoperative as if it had never been passed.\
• “It is the rule [under Washington law] that an invalid statute is a nullity. It is as inoperative as if it had never been passed.”
• “The elementary rule of statutory construction is without exception that a void act cannot operate to repeal a valid existing statute and the law remains in full force and operation as if the repeal had never been attempted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).