Lopez v. Davis

Lopez v. Davis
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 30, 2000 Decided January 10, 2001
Full case name	Christopher A. Lopez, Petitioner v. Randy J. Davis, Warden, et al.
Citations	531 U.S. 230 (more) 121 S. Ct. 714; 148 L. Ed. 2d 635
Case history
Prior	Affirmed, 186 F.3d 1092 (8th Cir. 2000)
Holding
The Bureau of Prisons regulation does not require consideration of the non-violent nature of the underlying conviction.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by O'Connor, Scalia, Souter, Thomas, Breyer
Dissent	Stevens, joined by Rehnquist, Kennedy
Laws applied
Bureau of Prisons Regulations

Lopez v. Davis, 531 U.S. 230 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case decided in 2001. The case concerned the validity of a Bureau of Prisons regulation which lowered prisoners' sentences for completion of a substance abuse program. The statute however restricted this credit to those who did not engage in a felony aided by a firearm. The Court upheld the regulation over the dissent of three Justices.