Sentence examples for to apply retroactively from inspiring English sources

In Linkletter we declined to apply retroactively the rule laid down in Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 81 S.Ct.

But on September 20th the state passed a law, to apply retroactively, that could jail gossip-mongers for one to four years for "disruption of public order".

Although the law was not in place at the time of the events, the firm argues that Congress intended it to apply retroactively.

A system arose in 1992 that allowed drug companies to apply retroactively for extensions on the exclusivity of their patents of up to five years.

The Senate bill allows these reductions to apply retroactively, but that would not be the case under the tentative compromise, the officials said.

Among the reasons: Earlier versions of the plan called for the payroll tax to apply retroactively to wages paid since Jan .1.

However, MI6 refused to allow these procedures to be applied retroactively to Tomlinson's case.

Duval said that he remains hopeful that when the federal government eventually changes its marijuana policy, it will apply retroactively to people who continue to be imprisoned.

The country's presidents will now be limited to two five-year terms, though the change does not apply retroactively to Robert Mugabe, the incumbent.

Congress specified that the law should apply retroactively to make any ongoing prison injunction subject to "immediate termination" if it cannot meet those standards.

The justice ministry will make $4.75 million available to victims of violence, threats or insults in a program that will apply retroactively to 1999.