Expect other states to pick up the civil-litigation torch.
  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    291·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world
      321·
      8 months ago

      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?