void (§ 29(b))
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 396 U.S. 375 - Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · 1970Most cited · 3,896 citing opinions
This language establishes that the guilty party is precluded from enforcing the contract against an unwilling innocent party, but it does not compel the conclusion that the contract is a nullity, creating no enforceable rights even in a party innocent of the violation
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “void (§ 29(b))” — 3,880 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.