void release
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 342 U.S. 359 - Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad · 1952Most cited · 899 citing opinions
Federal Employers' Liability Act · construing 45 U.S.C. § 51 · Federal Employers' Liability Act
a release of rights under the Act is void when the employee is induced to sign it by the deliberately false and material statements of the railroad's authorized representatives made to deceive the employee as to the contents of the release
How often courts cite the case defining “void release”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “void release” — 899 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.