"State laws and deadlines concerning 'replacement' of candidates are inapplicable here," he said.

National and state Republican committees argued the date requirement is useful in detecting fraud and that the materiality provision of the Civil Rights Act was inapplicable.

He correctly recognized that he was bound by precedent to reject Trumpov's request that he hold Sullivan inapplicable in his case.

The court declared "inapplicable" an article of the Peruvian Civil Code of 1984 on the family, which refers to marriage as the voluntary union between man and woman.

“As Richard Prince makes individual paintings and does not license his works, the holding in Warhol is clearly inapplicable to his New Portraits litigation,” he said.