Court Opinion

ID: 9485916
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 11:33:47.680951+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:51:26.625212
License: Public Domain

FARRIS, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I would welcome a constitutional right to interest, as would others in the marketplace, but there is none.
Our case law makes it clear that “the plaintiff must show that a protected property interest was taken.” Sierra Lake Reserve v. City of Rocklin, 938 F.2d 951, 956 (9th Cir.1991). Tellis has not and can not meet this burden. He relies on Nevada Revised Statutes, § 209.241 (1989), which states that the “interest and income earned ... must be credited to the [prisoners’] fund.” Tellis can not claim that he had a reasonable expectation of receiving a slice of the fund interest when, since 1981, the interest has been used to support prison law libraries and to purchase recreational equipment for the inmates. I respectfully dissent.