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· 7/21/1998

William Fiore v. Gregory White, Warden of the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Citations

  • 149 F.3d 221
  • 28 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 21442
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 16459
  • 1998 WL 406867

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  • holding state courts not required to apply new statutory interpretation retroactively even where new interpretation was announced in a co-defendant's case
  • noting “the Supreme Court’s longstanding position that ‘the federal constitution has no voice upon the subject’ of retroactivity” (quoting Sunburst

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Judges: Stapleton, Alito, Shadur

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