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Re:As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from... by shadowgovt on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:29PM (#23383393)
Interesting. You're right about the gap between civil and criminal law, but I can't think of any examples of someone going after civil liability for something that happened in the past under the legal reasoning that a law passed after the act makes the act one a person can be liable for. Can you give an example?
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Re:As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from... by abduhl on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:17PM (#23383955)
A good example is the post-9/11 lawsuits filed against foreign governments that were enabled by passage of JASTA or liability for asbestos which was broadly enabled by legislation.
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Re:As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from... by djannzjkzxn on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:02PM (#23383779)
Not exactly the same, but the legislature retroactively extended the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits. Not a case of a newly illegal act, but a case where someone who was in the clear for a past act became liable again.
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Re:As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from... by ikeboy on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:39PM (#23387168)
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/01/new-civil-fost...

Several examples here.

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