Enger v. Erwin

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “legislation which affects substantive rights may operate prospectively only”
• legislation which invokes procedural or evidentiary changes may operate retrospectively
• legislation which invokes procedural or evidentiary changes may operate retrospectively
• The General Assembly's repeal of the statute that created a cause of action for alienation of affections did not affect the plaintiff's right to sue because his substantive rights under that statute vested before the cause of action was abolished.
• The Generad Assembly’s repeal of the statute that created a cause of action for alienation of affections did not affect the plaintiff s right to sue because his substantive rights under that statute vested before the cause of action was abolished.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).