In 1974, Congress passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, which required the General Services Administration to confiscate former President Richard Nixon's presidential papers to prevent their destruction, screen out those which contained national security and other issues which might prevent their publication, and release the remainder of the papers to the public as fast as possible.
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This law has been challenged as a bill of attainder by the shipping division of ExxonMobil.
Judge Gerson found that the law, passed as part of an Appropriation bill, was an unconstitutional Bill of attainder.
He and his family were attainted for treason in 1779 and the entire manor was confiscated and sold at public auction; the land was split between 287 buyers.
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Both Lord Howard and Lady Margaret were committed to the Tower, and on 18 July 1536 an Act of Attainder accusing Lord Howard of attempting to 'interrupt ympedyte and lett the seid Succession of the Crowne' was passed in both houses of Parliament.
The main business of the Parliament was to pass bills of attainder for High treason against the leading Yorkist nobles, following the start of a new stage in the Wars of the Roses and the Battle of Ludford Bridge.