Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit August 4, 1998, No. 97-15820 (Schneider v. California Department of Corrections)

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to decide whether the California Department of Corrections’ policy of withholding from prisoners the interest that is earned on their inmate trust accounts contravenes the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

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The appellants are inmates currently and formerly incarcerated at several California state prisons.