Rhoads v. Folsom

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that banishment is a traditional form of punishment but only to the extent it deprives a person of citizenship and noting that banishment does not mean the mere restriction of one’s freedom to go or remain where others have the right to be
• “[E]ven if the [law] singles out an individual on the basis of irreversible past conduct, if it furthers a nonpunitive legislative purpose, it is not a bill of attainder.”
• upholding law that effectively applied to a single oil tanker

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).