Reed v. Taylor
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
DON R. WILLETT, Circuit Judge:
Jerry Reed is a civilly committed sexually violent predator. Under now-repealed Texas law, he had to pay for GPS monitoring or else face criminal prosecution. Reed's sole income, though, was Social Security. He contends that the pay-or-be-prosecuted penalty violated the Social Security Act's anti-attachment provision, 42 U.S.C. § 407(a), which protects benefits from "execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process."
Reed is mistaken. His Social Security benefits were not executed on, levied, attached, or garnished. And "other legal process" is not…
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