In 2015, Indiana’s then-governor, Mike Pence, signed a law making the state’s immunity law retroactive to Aug. 26, 1999, four days before the city of Gary initially filed its lawsuit.
How can you sign a retroactive law? Essentially making things legal which were illegal when they were committed and what about criminalising things which were legal? Could people be prosecuted for things that became crimes after they did them?
We have some forks which are made out of really thin tin you can bend them very easily. I hate those forks. No one uses them. I wish they would take the hint and fork off, instead they hang around trying to blend in with the better cutlery and get picked by accident.
Gary, Indiana’s lawsuit against gunmakers is shot down by a new law, after surviving 25 years of appeals (theconversation.com)
UK government seeks to limit low-traffic schemes as part of its ‘plan for drivers’ (www.theguardian.com)
Forking heck (lemmy.world)