Avraham Gold v. New York Life Insurance Co.

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• concluding that “Congress’s use of the term ‘decline to exercise’” in the local controversy exception “means that the exception is not jurisdictional”
• holding that an amendment that raised the amount of recoverable liquidated damages under Section 198(1-a
• concluding that “Congress’s use of the term ‘decline to exercise’” in the local controversy exception “means that the exception is not jurisdictional”
• holding that “Congress’s use of the term ‘decline to exercise’ means that the exception is not jurisdictional” but the Court must “actively decline to exercise [jurisdiction]”
• noting that “neither the text nor the legislative history mentions retroactivity” and that the law provided for a prospective effective date
• holding that the Wage Theft Prevention Act is non-retroactive

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