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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)

Citation
Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)
Parent Document
Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1995-10-10

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We next address the effect of No. 94-220, § 11, of the 1994 Public Acts (P.A. 94-220), which repealed § 47a-8. *392This requires little discussion. The defendants do not claim that P.A. 94-220 can be applied retroactively to eliminate the plaintiffs’ cause of action. Rather, they claim that the legislature’s repeal of § 47a-8, in response to the Hardy and Olesen decisions, clarifies that the legislature had never intended § 47a-8 to be construed as creating strict liability. Furthermore, the defendants cite to numerous passages in the legislative history of P.A. 94-220 that, in their view, show that our legislators had never intended to impose on landlords the harsh effects of strict liability.25 The plaintiffs, on the other hand, contend that the legislature had originally intended to create strict liability pursuant to § 47a-8 and *393that the repeal in 1994 cannot be applied retroactively to foreclose their preexisting strict liability action.