Board of Trustees of the Municipal Fire & Police Retirement Systems of Iowa v. City of West Des Moines

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A remedial statute ... corrects an existing law or redresses an existing grievance!.] ... ”
• where the amendment did not clarify the existing statutory scheme, court proceeded to determine whether change in law to be applied retrospectively or prospectively only
• “We have also determined curative legislation or emergency legislation may be given retrospective application.”
• “A remedial statute ... corrects an existing law or redresses an existing grievance[.] ...”
• “Generally, a newly enacted statute is applied prospectively. While this rule is nearly always followed when the legislation relates to substantive rights, we recognize a statute or amendment may be applied retrospectively when it relates solely to a remedy or procedure.”
• remedial, curative, or emergency legislation given retroactive application

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).