United States Fifth Circuit

Where earned interest is used to pay for the administration of a voluntary inmate trust fund, providing a benefit to prisoners, there is no "taking" violative of the Fifth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2002
• Published 09/11/2002

Judges

• ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, DeMOSS and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Larry Spain (argued), Texas Tech University, School of Law, Lubbock, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Charles Kenneth Eldred (argued), Susan M. Stith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.