Lynch v. Household Finance Corporation

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION, FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge;

This class action challenges, on due process grounds, the constitutionality of the Connecticut pre-judgment foreign attachment or garnishment statute, Conn. Gen.St. § 52-329. 1 Jurisdiction is based upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § 1343, and a three-judge District Court has been convened pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 2281, 2284. 2

There is no factual dispute. The plaintiff, Dorothy Lynch, represents a class of persons, natural or otherwise, who are subject to Connecticut in personam jurisdiction and who have…