15 U.S.C. § 27 — Effect of partial invalidity

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If a court finds part of this Act invalid, the rest of the Act still stands. The court's ruling only cancels the specific clause, sentence, paragraph, or part that the case was actually about.

This is a standard severability rule — one undivided provision. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act is ever adjudged (found) invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, that judgment does not affect, impair, or invalidate the rest of the Act. The court's judgment only applies to the specific clause, sentence, paragraph, or part directly involved in the controversy that produced it. Everything else in the Act keeps operating as before.

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If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.

Source credit: (Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 28, formerly § 26, 38 Stat. 740; renumbered § 27, Pub. L. 96–493, § 2, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2568; renumbered § 28, Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title IV, § 14102(d), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1922.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1914Enacted · Act of Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323 · 38 Stat. 740
1980Amended · Pub. L. 96-493 · 94 Stat. 2568
2002Amended · Pub. L. 107-273 · 116 Stat. 1922

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 323 on 1914-10-15.

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