Labels:book | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: be applied only prospectively See Chevron Oil Co. V. Huson. 404 U. 97 (1971) 1 Chevron it is appropriate to apply a decision only prospectively under the following circumstances: the decision applied nonretroactively must establish new principle of law either by overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied, by deciding an issue first impression whose resolution was you clearly fore- shadowed. Second must weigh the merits and demerits af each case by looking tc the prior history of the rule ir question, its purpose and effect. and whether retrospective operation will futther retard Finall we [must] weig[h] the inequity imposed retroactive application, for where decision +f this Court could produce substantial inequitable results applied retroactively there is ample bas ...
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