United States Ninth Circuit

In an action alleges that the Department’s withdrawal of $50.00 from plaintiff's prison wages pursuant to an Arizona statute that required that amount of money be placed in a dedicated discharge account, to be paid to him upon his release from incarceration, violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where plaintiff did not have a current possessory property interest in the wages withheld in the dedicated discharge account and he had not been permanently deprived of those funds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/27/2010
• Published 09/27/2010

Judges

• Richard R. Clifton

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Beau Sterling, Michele L. Forney