Clarke D. Forsythe, president of Americans United for Life, a leading anti-abortion group, said approvingly that while the court did not technically overturn the Nebraska decision, the new ruling "effectively gutted it."
The government effectively gutted the Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Heritage industry overnight.
Millions of dollars have been cut from the budgets of programs to develop low-cost housing, effectively gutting them, and some programs have been eliminated entirely.
At the time, the law prohibited those under 21 from buying alcohol but allowed bars to serve them - a surreal concession to the industry that effectively gutted the law.
The action was immediately criticized by groups trying to limit the influence of money in politics, who argued the commission was effectively gutting the new law.
The university is fighting a series of court decisions prohibiting it from using race as a factor in admissions and effectively gutting its affirmative action program.
The Court ruled that sections 3, 5(C), and 6 of S. B. 1070 were preempted by federal law, effectively gutting the statute.
Jeffrey A. Sterling, a Farsi-speaking African-American who worked as a case officer from 1993 to 2002, said that the agency effectively gutted his memoir after he filed a discrimination lawsuit.
That amendment effectively gutted the measure.
The advent of the Code effectively gutted EC Comics and threatenedthe comics industry generally.