In Re the Personal Restraint of Metcalf

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• rejecting State’s argument that a declaratory judgment action was an “adequate remedy” because counsel was not statutorily guaranteed in such an action
• rejecting cruel punishment claim based on determination that deduction of incarcerated person’s wages to pay incarceration costs and victim compensation fund was remedial and not punishment for criminal conduct
• citingHelveringv. Mitchell, 303 U.S. 391,401,58 S. Ct. 630, 82 L. Ed. 917 (1938)
• “When a challenge is to a legislative enactment, the legislative process provides all the process due.”
• Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies regardless of whether the state court judgment is on appeal
• applying rational basis review to a prisoner’s interest in money

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