Legal Opinion
Serra v. Lappin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 9, 2010No. 08-15969PublishedCited by 187 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:
Current and former federal prisoners allege that the low wages they were paid for work performed in prison violated then-rights under the Fifth Amendment and various sources of international law. Plaintiffs sued officials of the Bureau of Prisons for damages and injunctive and declaratory relief. We conclude that prisoners have no enforceable right to be paid for their work under the Constitution or international law, and we affirm the district court’s dismissal of the action.
I. Background
Plaintiffs Tony Serra, Jeanine Santiago, and Victor Cordero are current and former…
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