· 9/1/2023
LAVON ERIK CHAPMAN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
How courts have described this case
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- relying on devastating impact of wage garnishment to require prior hearing as a matter of due process
- invalidating statute providing for prejudgment garnishment without notice to the debtor or prior hearing
- holding unconstitutional Wisconsin garnishment procedures
- ex parte issuance of a summons by a court clerk pursuant to a Wisconsin statute authorizing prejudgment wage garnishment
- clerk of court issued summons at request of creditor's counsel, setting in motion garnishment of wages
- where the Court held that Wisconsin’s prejudgment garnishment of wages procedure violated procedural due process
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