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LYNCE v. MATHIS

No. 95-7452.

519 U.S. 433 (1997)

LYNCE v. MATHIS, SUPERINTENDENT, TOMOKA CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, et al.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided February 19, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel T. Remland argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Carter G. Phillips.

Parker D. Thomson, Assistant Attorney General of Florida, argued the cause for respondents. On the brief for respondent Butterworth were Mr. Butterworth, Attorney General, pro se, and Jason Vail, Assistant Attorney General. Susan A. Maher filed a brief for respondent Mathis.*

Stevens, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which Scalia, J., joined, p. 449.

Justice Stevens, delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1983 and thereafter the Florida Legislature enacted a series of statutes authorizing the department of corrections to award early release credits to prison inmates when the population of the state prison system exceeded predetermined levels. The question presented by this case is whether a 1992 statute canceling such credits for certain classes of offenders after they had been awarded—indeed, after they...

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