Cristiano v. Courts of the Justices of the Peace

OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The Court certified a plaintiff class of all present and future United Auto Workers union members employed in Delaware who have been, are, or will be subject to attachments in lieu of summons by the Delaware Justices of the Peace Courts under 10 Del. C. §§ 9582-9583. Cristiano v. Courts of the Justices of the Peace, 115 F.R.D. 240 (D.Del.1987). The class seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in challenging the attachments executed under the statute as facially violative of their procedural due process rights under the fourteenth amendment. The parties…