Congress failed to extend the exemption increase into 2006. I think they still intend to do that, just retroactively.
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I think there is enormous understanding and tolerance for an argument from necessity, and there's willingness to retroactively forgive what might strictly speaking be violations of the law.
I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.
We are going to vigorously attack the law in courts, ... Congress has no power to retroactively deprive people of their rights.
UCITA applies to any sort of computer-readable information. Even if you use only free software, you are likely to read articles on your computer, and access databases. UCITA will allow the publishers to impose the most outrageous restrictions on you. They could change the license retroactively at any time, and force you to delete the material if you don't accept the change. They could even prohibit you from describing what you see as flaws in the material.
Congress can address that dilemma, or growing probability of AMT exposure, by passing legislation that retroactively reduces that bite, and it would probably be as simple as maintaining or increasing the exemption amount.
We're going to argue that this statute is literally unprecedented in American history, ... because it is the first time that the federal government will be stepping in and retroactively depriving injured people of their vested legal rights under state law, without providing them any alternative.
This, essentially, retroactively withdraws those records from view and makes government unaccountable.
Further, as a matter of law, the city cannot retroactively impose time limits or unilaterally rescind an entitlement.