Hicks v. City of Airway Heights

How courts have described this case

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• “There can be no doubt that Legislatures have the power to pass retrospective statutes, if they affect remedies only.”
• the Legislature has “no constitutional power to enact retrospective laws which impair vested rights”
• “[I]f the right itself was created by statute, and existed only by virtue of its provisions, then the repeal of the statute defeats the right itself, unless already vested by a judgment.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).