Metro. Dade County v. Chase Fed. Housing

How courts have described this case

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• holding that retroactive application of immunity provisions under Florida Dry Cleaning Contamination Act is constitutionally permissible
• holding that where there is no express legislative command that the statute is retroactive, “both the terms of the statute and the purpose of the enactment must be considered” in determining if the statute is retroactive
• stating that the “retroactive abolition of substantive vested rights is prohibited by 2 constitutional due process considerations”
• stating that the “retroactive abolition of substantive vested rights is prohibited by 2 constitutional due process considerations”
• holding “[t]he general rule is that in the absence of clear legislative intent to the contrary, a law affecting substantive rights, liabilities and duties is presumed to apply prospectively.”
• noting that the presumption against retroactivity is the default rule of statutory construction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).