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· 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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