(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founded in 1859, the school that would become known as the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law was the first law school established in the city of Chicago. Today, Northwestern Law advances the ...

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 ...

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 ...

So retroactivity rules that are harsh in the short term can lead to more rights in the long term. But even if there is no federal right to resentencing, that does not mean that juvenile offenders ...

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