Cline v. Credit Bureau of Santa Clara Valley

Opinion

BURKE, J.

This case also involves the validity of California’s prejudgment wage garnishment procedure. In plaintiff’s complaint (amended) seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, he alleges that in an action filed against him seeking to recover some $295 allegedly owing, attachment of his wages at his place of employment was threatened in order to coerce him into paying; that if the wages are attached plaintiff and his family will be forced to exist at an income level below the minimum subsistence income necessary to support plaintiff’s family, all before plaintiff has had an…