Rivard v. Chicago Fire Fighters Union, Local No. 2

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• procedure embraces pleading, evidence and practice, which are legal rules directing course of proceedings to bring parties into court and course of court afterwards
• procedure embraces pleading, evidence and practice, which are legal rules directing course of proceedings to bring parties into court and course of court afterwards
• procedure embraces pleading, evidence and practice, which are legal rules directing course of proceedings to bring parties into court and course of court afterwards
• amendatory act construed as prospective unless clear indication that legislature intended retroactive application.
• “The presumption of prospectivity is rebuttable, but only by the act itself. Either by express language or necessary implication, the act must clearly indicate that the legislature intended a retroactive application”
• ‘[P]rocedure embraces “pleading, evidence and practice. Practice means those legal rules which direct the course of proceedings to bring parties into court and the course of the court after they are brought in.” ’ (quoting Ogdon v. Gianakos, 415 Ill. 591, 596 (1953))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).