| A bill of attainder is the ultimate violation of both due process and separation of powers. |
|
| A bill of attainder, which is banned by the Constitution, is a law that has a negative effect on a single person or group. |
|
| This month, Judge Gershon ruled that cutting the group's financing was an illegal bill of attainder. |
|
| On Wednesday, the appellate court decided in Con Edison's favor on a single issue, striking down the law as a bill of attainder. |
|
| Acorn has filed a lawsuit arguing that the statute banning the government from providing it money amounts to a bill of attainder. |
|
| The impeachment was the first since 1459 without the king's official sanction in the form of a bill of attainder. |
|
| The controversy eventually led to Laud's impeachment for treason by a bill of attainder in 1645, and subsequent execution. |
|
| Pym and his allies immediately launched a bill of attainder, which simply declared Strafford guilty and pronounced the sentence of death. |
|
| After the reign of Edward IV, impeachment fell into disuse, the bill of attainder becoming the preferred form of dealing with undesirable subjects of the Crown. |
|
| Pym immediately launched a Bill of Attainder, stating Strafford's guilt and demanding that the Earl be put to death. |
|
| Pym immediately moved a Bill of Attainder, asserting Strafford's guilt and ordering that he be put to death. |
|
| However, in March 1534, a special Bill of Attainder against Fisher and others for complicity in the matter of the Maid of Kent was introduced in Parliament and passed. |
|
