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lemm.ee

Lawsuits in flight shouldn't be able to be shot down by laws. I've seen global companies will worm their way out of lawsuits this way. It's fuckin' whack.

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Koof_on_the_Roofreply
lemmy.world

In 2015, Indiana’s then-governor, Mike Pence, signed a law making the state’s immunity law retroactive to Aug. 26, 1999, four days before the city of Gary initially filed its lawsuit.

How can you sign a retroactive law? Essentially making things legal which were illegal when they were committed and what about criminalising things which were legal? Could people be prosecuted for things that became crimes after they did them?

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CMDR_Hornreply
lemmy.ml

On the flip side there are states retroactively decriminalizing weed, so people with past offenses have their records erased

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dudinaxreply
programming.dev

You can't criminalize an event that already happened, but you can decriminalize it.

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