Dale Baker Oldsmobile, Inc. v. Fiat Motors of North America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that a statute would operate retroactively if it impacted a pre-existing contract, even though the conduct it regulated post-dated the statute
• explaining that remedial statutes are those that “determine the manner of effecting a remedy”
• “A state statute, which has not been authoritatively construed by the state court, should be construed in a manner which will avoid such constitutional questions.”
• “This argument ignores the fact that defendant acquired contract rights at the time the parties entered the dealer agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).