Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net> writes:
In a further blatant erosion of Constitutional rights, the California Supreme Court has ruled that a person owing child support who fails to seek or accept work may be jailed and fined for contempt of court, and that this does not violate any Constitutional bans on involuntary servitude or imprisonment for debt.
This reverses nearly a century of contrary rulings. Look for this "improved" interpretation to be expanded to other kinds of debts and judgments as well, as soon as massive public acceptance of it for the carefully picked child support issue is engineered.
The credit card companies are no doubt carefully analyzing this decision as we speak.
Ah yes; once it's established that a parent owing alimony can be forced to work "to protect the children", expect similar treatments for taxes and credit card debt and judgments. The credit card issues are also lobbying very hard to exempt credit card debts from bankrucpy. For most of humanity's history, interest rates on loans to individuals were around 100-200% per annum; default rate was proportionate; bad debtors were jailed or enslaved; children inherited debt; etc. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps