Retroactive Statute can Derail Active Appeal
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 at
1:38 pm
Jones v. Douglas County, 247 OrApp 56 (2011)
Holding: A general law which derails an active appeal by creating a statute of repose that applies retroactively not per se unconstitutional.
1) Whether a statute applies retroactively, as well as prospectively, is a question of legislative intent to be decided by application of the standard principles of legislative construction. pp. 76-80.
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