Lord Bingham, and one of the Law Lords in the first panel who sided with General Pinochet, considered the retrospectivity argument briefly, and then rejected it because the plain language of Britain's 1989 Extradition Act seems explicitly to rule it out.

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Swecker, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit relied on this same language to find that a Virginia rule restricting alcohol ads in college newspapers was constitutional.

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