Smith v. West Virginia Division of Rehabilitative Services

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• undertaking plenary review where “[t]he decisions of the circuit court and the administrative law judge were rulings strictly regarding matters of law”
• “ ‘A statute that diminishes substantive rights or augments substantive liabilities should not be applied retroactively to events completed before the effective date of the statute (or the date of enactment if no separate effective date is stated
• “ ‘A statute that diminishes substantive rights or augments substantive liabilities should not be applied retroactively to events completed before the effective date of the statute (or the date of enactment if no separate effective date is stated

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