Joseph G. Givens v. AL Dept. of Corrections

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring that a plaintiff must first demonstrate that he possesses a “property interest” that is constitutionally protected to state a takings claim under federal law
• “Alabama inmates do not have a common law property right to the interest that accrues on their accounts” and Alabama “created no such property interest” in statutory law.
• “Thus, to determine whether a particular property interest is protected, we look to ‘existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law.’ ”
• “[The prisoner] has at most a limited property right in the principal . . . . [He] is not free to receive the amounts deposited in cash, make withdrawals whenever he wants, or spend money without the Department’s approval.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).