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Lopez v. Davis, No. 99-7504 (U.S. Supreme Court) (531 U.S. 230; 121 S.Ct. 714) (January 10, 2001) (Justice Ginsburg)

Here the Supreme Court held that the BOP had acted within its discretionary right when is adopted revised regulations excluding persons whose crime involved a gun from receiving sentence reductions for participation in drug treatment programs.

Back in 1994, Congress passed a law (18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2)(B)) to provide incentives, ...

 

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