Word: sniadach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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