Waters v. Bass

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• holding, inter alia, that implementation of § 53.1-131.3 at the Virginia Beach City Jail did not violate Equal Protection Clause
• dismissing equal protection claim where all inmates had to pay the daily room and board fee
• no equal protection claim based on payment of room and board fees from inmate account
• no equal protection claim based on payment of room and board fees from inmate account
• “Virginia’s prison transfer regulations do not create any liberty interest in a specific housing assignment, as prison officials have, and reasonably must have, broad discretion under the regulations to determine the facility at which an inmate is housed.”
• a charge of $1 per day was not excessive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).