Hickory Spinning Co. v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the comments of a legislative sponsor are “noteworthy,” if not conclusive, as to a statute’s plain meaning
• upholding vetoes of provisos that were similarly only tangentially related to any appropriation amount
• discussing partial veto of three repealers in Laws of 1994, ch. 143, “AN ACT Relating to milk and milk products,” which included hundreds of sections, one of which contained 103 repealers
• “[0]ur mandate as the Supreme Court of Washington [is] to decide whether legislative designation of sections is true to the spirit of the constitution.”
• “Neither the Legislature nor the Governor should be able to circumvent the constitution by manipulating what constitutes a section or what is subject to the appropriation item veto.”
• inquiring as to whether provision was related to neighboring appropriation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).