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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (34367)	3/24/2009 7:37:36 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

A bill of attainder can be against a defined class or group, not just named individuals. The main distinction is that its punitive with the government trying to dole out punishment by legislation (rather than passing a general law and then punishing people who later violate it). But this might only be a borderline case as a bill of attainder, and typically the government gets away with borderline cases. OTOH in addition to being a bill of attainder, its also an ex post factor law. (And... if levied from say Jan 1 rolling forward... not ex post facto either.) If the law effects income from before its passed its ex-post facto. They could try to prevent NEW bonuses using this law.