Such a move would permit thousands of men and women who were harshly sentenced long ago to benefit from lawmakers' enlightened perspectives. Last month, President Obama signed landmark legislation ...

Kilpatrick’s David Hughes recently moderated a panel discussion at the ABA Tax Section May 2025 Meeting in Washington, D.C. on the topic of “Retroactive Taxation: Legal Framework, State Applications, ...

A move by state legislators to retroactively change self-defense laws is unconstitutional, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled. Without dissent, the judges said Cesar Montes, convicted of the 2005 ...

A U.S. District Court Judge has said the Court has jurisdiction to hear a case challenging health reform law’s ban on new physician-owned hospitals and expansions of existing facilities, according to ...

Over one million people have received retroactive payments due to the Social Security Fairness Act. In a March 4 press release, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that more than $7.5 ...

LANSING, MI - Nearly 48,000 Michiganders will be getting retroactive unemployment payments under a new law that raised weekly benefit rates earlier this year. About $34 million in back payments will ...

Scott Mollen discusses “Article 13 LLC v. Office of the NYS Attorney General, Intervenor-Respondent, v. Ponce De Leon Federal Bank, et al., Defendants, v. Lasalle National Bank Association.

The South Carolina Supreme Court released an order July 23 retroactively suspending the law license of a Summerville lawyer who pleaded guilty and was pardoned for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021, ...

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During a government shutdown, both furloughed employees and those deemed 'excepted' are entitled to retroactive pay. This is mandated by the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, which ...