State Attorney General Sam Olens said Friday that his office is exploring ways to address the alleged shortcomings in the state’s post-judgment garnishment statute identified by a federal judge who on Tuesday declared the law unconstitutional.
The ruling by U.S. District Senior Judge Martin Shoob said the statute violated constitutional guarantees of due process by not giving debtors enough notice about the sorts of funds that are exempt from garnishment and how to claim those exemptions. Shoob said the statute also didn’t provide a procedure to adjudicate exemption claims quickly enough.
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