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...Supreme Court heard the case of Christine Sniadach, a Milwaukee assembly-line worker whose wages had been garnisheed by a loan company trying to recover a debt; the court ruled that such garnishment was illegal unless the victim first got a due-process hearing. Last year the court reviewed Florida and Pennsylvania statutes governing the repossession of furniture and other merchandise and ruled that no creditor could get a court order or a sheriff's help in taking back his goods without first giving a hearing to the customer accused of being delinquent. Since then, repossession statutes have been...
...when a loan company sought to begin recovery of a debt from Christine Sniadach of Milwaukee by taking $31.59 from her $65 weekly pay, she ap pealed to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for help. Wisconsin's garnishment statute, similar to those in 16 other states, allows a creditor to tie up as much as 50% of a salary earner's wages even before a debt has been proved. Often, far more than a weekly bite is involved; the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that employers fire between 100,000 and 300,000 workers each year...
...Sniadach's lawyers argued that be cause she was given no chance to dispute her debt in court before her pay check was cut, she was deprived of her property without the processes guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. By a vote of 7 to 1, the Supreme Court agreed, although Justice Hugo Black, in an angry dissent, called the voiding of Wisconsin's law a "plain judicial usurpation of state legislative power." - In 1964, WGCB, a radio station in Red Lion, Pa., broadcast a right-wing preacher's attack on Fred J. Cook, a frequent contributor...
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