Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development v. Vision Investments, Inc., Vision Village, Inc., Lakin D. Kirk, and Nancy J. Kirk

ROBERT MADDEN HILL, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from a civil contempt judgment for failure to comply with the payment terms of a consent order, the contem-ners urge us to apply the prohibition against imprisonment for debt of 28 U.S.C. § 2007(a) and Tex. Const, art. I, § 18. Finding that the district court’s use of contempt sanctions to enforce the payment terms of the order falls within the scope of the section 2007(a) prohibition and that Texas law does not provide an exemption from the prohibition, we vacate the contempt judgment and remand the case to the district court.

I. FACTS AND…