Lafontaine Saline, Inc v. Chrysler Group LLC

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the legislature must “make its intentions clear when it seeks to pass a law with retroactive effect”
• noting that “the Legislature provided for the law to take immediate effect upon its filing date . . . only confirms its textual prospectivity”
• stating that imposing the amendment would “create a new liability in connection with a past transaction”
• stating that “questions of statutory interpretation [are reviewed] de novo, including questions regarding retroactivity of amendments”
• noting that the Legislature had previously used specific retroactivity language when amending the relevant statute and that the Legislature’s silence regarding retroactivity in the amendment at issue undermined any claim that the amendment was intended to apply retroactively
• noting that the Legislature had previously used specific retroactivity language when amending the relevant statute and that the Legislature’s silence regarding retroactivity in the amendment at issue undermined any claim that the amendment was intended to apply retroactively

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).