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 ...

Thirteen people alleging childhood sexual abuse by Catholic priests, nuns and teachers decades ago cannot file civil lawsuits because a retroactive law eliminating the statute of limitations violates ...

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 ...

A court has granted retroactive first offender status under a new Georgia law allowing a second chance for those who were eligible but not offered the opportunity to earn the removal of a conviction ...

Thousands of Massachusetts solar customers who installed panels on their homes in recent years have yet to realize the full savings of their investment because of a delay in updating utility ...