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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bardsandsages" data-source="post: 3426422" data-attributes="member: 28771">Actually, it doesn't.  This phrase does not eliminate a company's legal responsibilities.  It is not a legal "cop out."  It is a disclaimer.  For example, let's say it was legal in PA to have a contest to award Twidgets to a winner, but Twidgets were illegal in NJ.  If the ad ran on a Philadelphia TV station, the company would use the phrase Void Where Prohibited to alert consumers that there might be thnigs preventing them from entering.  However, the company would still have to know WHERE the contest was prohibited in order to prevent residents of NJ from entering.  It does not allow them to accept NJ entries and then just ignore them.  And, if the company didn't do their homework and announced a NJ resident as the winner, they could be in a world of trouble.</blockquote>