Commonwealth ex rel. State Corp. Commission v. Coplon

By JUDGE MELVIN R. HUGHES, JR.

On the ground the defendants extended usurious loans as unlicensed lenders, the Commonwealth of Virginia on the relation of the State Corporation Commission sues for injunctive, monetary, and other relief under provisions of the Consumer Finance Act, Sections 6.1-244, et seq., Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended.

In July, 1987, the Court deferred issues of excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment, substantive due process, and equal protection until the evidence and decided that the 1987 version of Section 6.1-303(A)(2), the statute by which the Commonwealth…