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time of the underlying conduct unless there is a clear statement that an amendment should apply retroactively to pre-enactment conduct. See, e.g., Hughes Aircraft Co. v. United States ex rel. Schumer, 520 U.S. 939, 952 (1997) ("Given the absence of a clear statutory expression of congressional intent to apply the

e of an antecedent criminal conviction. Given that "Congress is understood to legislate against a background of common-law adjudicatory principles," Astoria Fed. Say. & Loan Assn. v. Solimino, 501 U.S. 104, 108 (1991), "the courts may take it as given that Congress has legislated with an expectation that th

time of the underlying conduct unless there is a clear statement that an amendment should apply retroactively to pre-enactment conduct. See, e.g., Hughes Aircraft Co. v. United States ex rel. Schumer, 520 U.S. 939, 952 (1997) ("Given the absence of a clear statutory expression of congressional intent to apply the

e of an antecedent criminal conviction. Given that "Congress is understood to legislate against a background of common-law adjudicatory principles," Astoria Fed. Say. & Loan Assn. v. Solimino, 501 U.S. 104, 108 (1991), "the courts may take it as given that Congress has legislated with an expectation that th

time of the underlying conduct unless there is a clear statement that an amendment should apply retroactively to pre-enactment conduct. See, e.g., Hughes Aircraft Co. v. United States ex rel. Schumer, 520 U.S. 939, 952 (1997) ("Given the absence of a clear statutory expression of congressional intent to apply the

e of an antecedent criminal conviction. Given that "Congress is understood to legislate against a background of common-law adjudicatory principles," Astoria Fed. Say. & Loan Assn. v. Solimino, 501 U.S. 104, 108 (1991), "the courts may take it as given that Congress has legislated with an expectation that th

time of the underlying conduct unless there is a clear statement that an amendment should apply retroactively to pre-enactment conduct. See, e.g., Hughes Aircraft Co. v. United States ex rel. Schumer, 520 U.S. 939, 952 (1997) ("Given the absence of a clear statutory expression of congressional intent to apply the

e of an antecedent criminal conviction. Given that "Congress is understood to legislate against a background of common-law adjudicatory principles," Astoria Fed. Say. & Loan Assn. v. Solimino, 501 U.S. 104, 108 (1991), "the courts may take it as given that Congress has legislated with an expectation that th

time of the underlying conduct unless there is a clear statement that an amendment should apply retroactively to pre-enactment conduct. See, e.g., Hughes Aircraft Co. v. United States ex rel. Schumer, 520 U.S. 939, 952 (1997) ("Given the absence of a clear statutory expression of congressional intent to apply the

e of an antecedent criminal conviction. Given that "Congress is understood to legislate against a background of common-law adjudicatory principles," Astoria Fed. Say. & Loan Assn. v. Solimino, 501 U.S. 104, 108 (1991), "the courts may take it as given that Congress has legislated with an expectation that th