State v. Chyo Chiagk

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• explaining that statutory amendment permitting superior court to entertain declaratory judgment actions pertained to procedures by which parties’ rights are adjudicated
• noting that statutes are generally found to be applicable to “those pending cases which on the effective date of the statute have not yet gone beyond the procedural stage to which the statute pertains” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “The fact that implementation of the amended [statute expanding subject matter jurisdiction of superior court] may alter the parties’ relative positions by allowing the plaintiff to file a declaratory judgment action does not in itself make the amendment substantive.”
• “In many 9 instances we have found proper the retroactive application of procedural or remedial statutes that may have altered the outcome of the controversy or subjected parties to criminal or civil actions which otherwise would have been barred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).