Holen v. Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission

How courts have described this case

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• stating that appellate court may address issues when fully briefed and no possible advantage or disadvantage to either party in not having prior ruling
• stating that appellate courts must dispose of case in accordance with amendatory statutes clearly intended to be retroactive and applicable to pending litigation not involving a vested right
• stating that appellate courts must dispose of case in accordance with amendatory statutes clearly intended to be retroactive and applicable to pending litigation not involving a vested right
• “Clearly, there is a definite distinction between the effect to be given to a retroactive statute when it relates to private rights and when it relates to public rights.”
• retrospective legislation is constitutionally prohibited when it divests a private vested interest
• retrospective legislation is constitutionally prohibited when it divests a private vested interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).