Bruce v. Samuels

Bruce v. Samuels
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 4, 2015 Decided January 12, 2016
Full case name	Antoine Bruce, Petitioner v. Charles E. Samuels, Jr., et al.
Docket no.	14–844
Citations	577 U.S. ___ (more) 135 S. Ct. 2833; 192 L. Ed. 2d 874
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Bruce v. Samuels, 577 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 requires prisoners to pay twenty percent of their prior month's income for each case they file.^[1] The Court rejected the petitioner's argument that prisoners were only required to pay a maximum of twenty percent of their monthly income, even if they file multiple cases.^[1]

Opinion of the Court[]

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg authored a unanimous decision.^[2]

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