American Textiles, Inc. v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there is no specific group targeted- by the legislation because “those with two convictions ... can avoid the enhanced sentence by not committing the third offense”
• confirming that the state’s Persistent Offender Accountability Act is not a bill of attainder
• abrogated on other grounds by Black v. Ctr. Puget Sound Reg’l Transit Auth., 195 Wn.2d 198, 457 P.3d 453 (2020)
• referring to the offenses and the crimes the defendant committed
• “[T]he determination of penalties for crimes is a legislative function.”
• crimes of robbery and kidnapping involve the threat of violence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).