Bourbon Mini-Mart, Inc. v. Gast Fuel & Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• conceding that the language of the statute in question, which was worded in the present tense, did “not demonstrate that the Legislature meant for recovery to be retroactive”
• explaining that a remedial statute is one that is intended to cure a defect or mischief that existed in a prior statute
• conceding that the language of the statute in question, which was worded in the present tense, did “not demonstrate that the Legislature meant for recovery to be retroactive”
• allowing retroactive application in part because that would “best achieve” the “Legislature’s intent”
• allowing retroactive application in part because that would “best achieve” the “Legislature’s intent”
• “Ultimately … whether or not a statute applies retroac- tively depends on the Legislature’s intent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).