Punch and Jurists

Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington, No. 01-1325 (U.S. Supreme Court) (538 U.S. 216; 123 S.Ct. 1406) (March 26, 2003) (Justice Stevens) by Here, by a 5 to 4 vote, the Court affirmed a Ninth Circuit en banc decision which held that an assessment program on interest generated by lawyers' …

Schneider v. California Dept. of Corrections, No. 97-15820 (9th Cir.) (151 F.3d 1194) (September 4, 1998) (Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain) by Case held that prisoners held a constitutionally cognizable propert interest to interest earned on funds deposited in unmate trust accounts to trigger a violation of the Fifth Amendment's taking …