Backdating, which grants a discounted option, effectively voids the favorable tax treatment that incentive stock options provide employees, rendering their individual tax returns inaccurate.

Mr. Lay's death effectively voids the guilty verdict against him, temporarily thwarting the federal government's efforts to seize his remaining real estate and financial assets, legal experts say.

By chasing every minor infraction, General Gilbert effectively voided a decade-old reform that granted rape victims amnesty from punishment for lesser wrongdoing - like underage drinking at a party where the assault occurred.

The move effectively voided the legal basis for the change, though pan-Blue legislators refrained from declaring the new name dead or the old one preserved.

On October 24, 1997 the Senate Appropriations Committee overturned the President's veto, and soon after both houses of congress voted in favor the committee's decision, effectively voiding the President's veto.

A November 18, 2008 decision of the Supreme Court, however, effectively voided the law converting Lamitan to a city after the League of Cities of the Philippines filed a petition earlier in the year.

A Federal appeals court in New York yesterday effectively voided President Bush's executive order of May that all Haitians fleeing their homeland be halted at sea and escorted back to Haiti.

Legal Opening for Haitians A Federal appeals court effectively voided an order by President Bush that all fleeing Haitians be stopped at sea and taken back home.

Late in the year, moreover, the state's Controller effectively voided the numerous corporate mergers and restructurings made to minimize taxes after the law was passed.

Its terms would effectively void the Supreme Court decision and allow Federal credit unions to continue to include unrelated groups in their memberships.