remedial statute
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 355 U.S. 220 - McGee v. International Life Insurance · 1957Most cited · 7,791 citing opinions
The statute was remedial, in the purest sense of that term, and neither enlarged nor impaired respondent's substantive rights or obligations under the contract. It did nothing more than to provide petitioner with a California forum to enforce whatever substantive rights she might have against respondent.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “remedial statute” — 7,782 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.