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And once Pennsylvania amends its laws to make sex offender registration and notice requirements apply to juveniles over 14, as required by the federal Adam Walsh Act, they will apply retroactively -- meaning kids with records will have their names and pictures displayed on the state's sex offender website for at least ten years.

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In a retroactive manner; with reversed or retrospective action.

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The legislature can lessen sentences, retroactively, and the executive branch can lessen any individual sentence. — Blog updates
Yet because the new rules aren't applied retroactively, the pay curbs won't be imposed on these companies. — Top Stories - Google News
In fact, the latest Act specifically empowers the USÂ to do what it did in 1978Â -- retroactively rewrite the rules of cooperation with India by enacting a new domestic law. — rediff.com
As all SCC rulings at the time were enforced retroactively, the government was required to refund the money it had collected.
Apple took an $84 million charge after it acknowledged it had backdated 6,428 grants between 1997 and 2002 -- retroactively setting a stock option's exercise price to a low point in the stock's value, boosting the profits that are reaped when the options are cashed in. — E-Commerce Times