Siddens v. Industrial Commission

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• a judgment entered by a court lacking subject-matter jurisdiction is void and a void order is “a complete nullity from its inception and has no legal effect”
• a judgment entered by a court lacking subject-matter jurisdiction is void and a void order is \a complete nullity from its inception and has no legal effect\
• because courts have a duty to vacate and expunge void orders from court records, a court may sua sponte declare void an order entered by an agency where the order was beyond the scope of the agency’s statutory authority
• because courts have a duty to vacate and expunge void orders from court records, a court may sua sponte declare void an order entered by an agency where the order was beyond the scope of the agency's statutory authority
• a judgment or order is void where it is entered by a court or agency which lacks personal jurisdiction, subject-matter jurisdiction, or the inherent power to enter the particular judgment or order, or where the order is procured by fraud
• where the reviewing court entered a final judgment, the agency did not have statutory power to review the merits of the appeal in the underlying case to determine if that appeal was frivolous or made for the purpose of delay

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).