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The Story Of Parenthood, Courtney Cahill
Loving Retroactivity, Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes
Loving Retroactivity, Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes
Florida State University Law Review
Pending actions across the nation highlight the ongoing struggle between adjudicative retroactivity and marital equality. The Supreme Court's constitutional decisions overruling prior precedents or applying new legal rules to the parties retroactively govern all pending and future adjudicative proceedings on direct review, even if the underlying operative events occurred under a prior legal framework. But this understanding of the temporal boundaries of legal change is being challenged after the Supreme Court's holding in Obergefell v. Hodges that laws excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples are invalid. The retroactive application of Obergefell …
After Sex, Courtney Megan Cahill