Sanford v. Preston

How courts have described this case

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• “[I]t is elementary that the legislature cannot create authority retroactively simply by passing ‘clarifying’ legislation. The intent of the legislature must be determined as of the time the original act was passed.”
• \[I]t is elementary that the legislature cannot create authority retroactively simply by passing `clarifying' legislation. The intent of the legislature must be determined as of the time the original act was passed.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).