retroactive-legislation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1178 U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT v. Cassandra Fox New York 2025-05-19 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law due-process mortgage-foreclosure property-rights retroactive-legislation takings-clause CPLR 205-a(a) retroactively renders untimely a large category of mortgage foreclosure claims that, under preexisting law, were timely and valid, and e…
24A960 U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT v. Cassandra Fox New York 2025-04-08 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mortgage-foreclosure retroactive-legislation takings-clause Question not identified.
24-87 Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response Waived child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Consistent with the presumption against retroactive legislation, whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283, which extended the statute of limitat…
22-116 Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1, "An Act Concerning Police Accountability," violates the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10, of the United St…
21-1377 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-04-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived cover-up due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause punitive-damages retroactive-legislation sexual-abuse-claims statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause allows retroactive legislation that was enacted with an avowedly punitive purpose, imposes additional punitive lia…
20-1090 Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection 1. Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judi­cial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Ci…
19-8183 Jose Nogales v. California California 2020-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15 year ol…
19-1097 Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied Relisted (2) aia burden-of-proof due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-validity retroactive-legislation retroactivity takings vested-rights Does the application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the enactment of the AIA violate the Due Process Clause because it retroact…
19-789 Maghreb Petroleum Exploration, S.A., et al. v. John Paul DeJoria Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retroactivity-provisions civil-rights constitutional-law de-novo-review due-process erie-doctrine federal-constitution foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgment judicial-review retroactive-application retroactive-legislation retroactivity texas-constitution texas-law texas-legislature uniform-foreign-country-money-judgments-recognitio 1. Respondent John Paul DeJoria is a billionaire who co-founded a Moroccan company, was found liable in Moroccan court for defrauding Petitioners and …
18-819 Victoria Vasconcellos v. Debra Hamlin Illinois 2018-12-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-union civil-unions constitutional-interpretation dissolution-action due-process equal-protection property-rights retroactive-application retroactive-legislation same-sex-couples same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationship statutory-recognition Whether, under the Illinois State and U.S. Constitutions, where a same-sex couple did not enjoy the legally recognized rights and benefits of civil un…
18-7042 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas Texas 2018-12-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent What is the proper application, if any, of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to P…