Beechwood Coal Co. v. Lucas

How courts have described this case

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• “A general rule of statutory construction is that, in the absence of a clear manifestation of a contrary intent, a statute which adversely affects substantive rights will be assumed to operate prospectively rather than retrospectively.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).