Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)

Citation: Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)
Parent Document: Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Nunez, 460 Mass. 511 (2011)
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date: 2011-09-06
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6580334/federal-national-mortgage-assn-v-nunez/ ↗

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Id. at 448-449, quoting Hanscom v. Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co., 220 Mass. 1, 3 (1914). See Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales, 548 U.S. 30, 37 (2006); Rosnov v. Molloy, ante 474, 477 (2011).7 Thus, where the language of a statute and the ordinary tools of statutory interpretation do not resolve the *517statute’s application to cases that are pending or to preenactment conduct or transactions, “we ask whether applying the statute to the person objecting would have a retroactive consequence in the disfavored sense of ‘affecting substantive rights, liabilities, or duties [on the basis of] conduct arising before [its] enactment’ ” and, if so, apply the presumption that such a retroactive effect was not intended by the Legislature. Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales, supra at 37-38, quoting Landgrafv. USI Film Prods., 511 U.S. 244, 278 (1994).

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