The law of retroactivity has a troubled history in the Supreme Court, largely because it is so intellectually confounding. But also, retroactivity allows long-convicted offenders to seek relief (thus ...

2 For example, in the matter of Stewart v. San Luis Ambulance, Inc. (No. S246255), the Ninth Circuit certified three questions to the California Supreme Court regarding rest breaks, meal periods ...

Plaintiffs’ lawyers are going to be in defensive mode.” Officials at the Sacramento-based Consumer Attorneys of California argue that Proposition 64 doesn’t address retroactivity. “Retroactivity for ...

Retroactivity would give politicians the power to apply new laws to things that happened legally in the past. Meaning people and businesses could be unfairly punished for things that happened long ...

From the standpoint of legitimate expectation and legal stability, most countries do not allow laws to be retroactively applied to events that occurred prior to the laws’ enactment. However, this ...

(CN) – A federal regulation to slash production of ozone-depleting chemicals cannot be made retroactive, the D.C. Circuit ruled. The Environmental Protection Agency finalized the regulation this year ...

Such "absolute retroactivity" in cases already decided by the courts would deny justice to the victims of crime, offend against the fundamental and just interests of society, undermine the need ...

The Court should reconsider its decision on cut-score retroactivity, and grant immediate licensure to February applicants scoring over 1390 who have fulfilled all other requirements, as they have now ...

It’s often said that only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. There’ a third - the certainty of escaping payment of taxes if you have the right connections. In the wake of ...