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 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 ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to place a retroactive cap on medical malpractice damages in the case of a Miami oncologist slapped with a $1.47 million award for performing disabling ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Sex offenders in Ohio cannot be subjected to stricter monitoring of their whereabouts if they committed their crimes before a 2007 state law imposing the new requirements took ...