Henry v. Postal Telegraph Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that VA benefits recipients, like SS benefits recipients, cannot consent in advance to an assignment of future funds
• holding that 38 USC section 5301(a)(1) precludes prison officials from placing a hold on an inmate’s trust account that was funded with payments of veterans’ disability benefits
• explaining that “when a prisoner is moved from a prison, his action will usually become moot as to conditions at that particular facility”
• explaining that “when a prisoner is moved from a prison, his action [for injunctive relief] will usually become moot as to conditions at that particular facility”
• concluding 22 that an inmate’s claim would not be moot upon transfer where the policy pursuant to which 23 the alleged violation occurred was “system wide” and one of the defendants was in charge of the policy
• noting “when a prisoner is moved from a prison, his action will usually 14 become moot as to the conditions at that particular facility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).