11.   Entire volumes of names were declared invalid because of a mistake on the cover sheet.

12.   Four months later, at the urging of his daughters, he filed a petition in Pierce County Superior Court asking to have the marriage declared invalid.

13.   If a court finds that managers and directors did violate those duties, he said, the results could be declared invalid.

14.   Now there are many grounds for annulment, meaning that a marriage has been declared invalid in the eyes of the church, Thompson said.

15.   Nor should his brave deed be declared invalid.

16.   The ballots were declared invalid, he said.

17.   The court ruled that a vote could be declared invalid even in the absence of fraud or intentional wrongdoing.

18.   The process could take months, and the lawsuit may be rendered moot if the patent is declared invalid.

19.   The ruling is not binding on the judge in the Suffolk County case, where the ACLU is asking that the law be declared invalid statewide.