Heald v. Thing

How courts have described this case

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• adopting definitions of substantive law and procedural law, comparing them to statutory language, and determining which parts of statute were substantive and which were procedural
• “Procedural matters lie solely within the province of this court.” (citations omitted)
• “Substantive law ‘creates, defines, and regulates the rights, duties, and powers of parties.’ In contrast, procedural law prescribes ‘the steps for having a right or duty judicially enforced, as opposed to the law that defines the specific rights or duties themselves.’”
• applying definitions to Arkansas medical malpractice statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).