Plaut v. Spendthrift Farms, Inc., No. 93-1121 (U.S. Supreme Court) (514 U.S. 211; 115 S.Ct. 1447) (April 18, 1995) (Justice Scalia)
In discussing legislative attempts to undo a court's final judgment, the Court first noted that its previous decisions had "uniformly provided fair warning that such an act exceeds the power of Congress" and then it declared that "when retroactive legislation requires its own application in a case already finally adjudicated, ...
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