Georgia Association of Retarded Citizens v. Dr. Charles McDaniel in His Official Capacity as State Superintendent of Schools

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• recognizing that Section 2403(a) requires the district court to notify the United States Attorney General that this case raised a question of the constitutionality of an Act of Congress
• ‘rights fixed by judgment are, in essence, a form of property over which legislatures have no greater power than any other [property]’
• 'rights fixed by judgment are, in essence, a form of property over which legislatures have no greater power than any other [property]'
• “When it so intends, [Congress’] ability to affect the content of a nonfinal judgment in a civil case, through retroactive legislation ceases only when a case’s journey through the courts comes to an end.”
• The princi- ple of separation of powers “protects judicial action from superior legislative review, a regime that would be obvi- ously inconsistent with due process of law and subversive of the judicial branch of government.”
• Though Congress intended a statute to control cases \pending\ before enactment of the statute, the court found no clear intent that the statute would apply to pending cases that a court had also finally dismissed.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).