Wood v. Beatrice Foods Co.

How courts have described this case

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• court upheld statute suspending benefits to prisoners following conviction but allowing assignment of permanent disability payments to prisoner's spouse or minor children
• statutorily created benefits exist only to the extent provided by the applicable statute, and legislation limiting such benefits does not deprive affected persons of a constitutionally protected property interest
• workers’ compensation payments not a matter of fundamental right

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).