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ASSOC. FINANCIAL SERVICES OF AMERICA v. ROBINSON

No. 78-1512.

582 F.2d 1 (1978)

ASSOCIATES FINANCIAL SERVICES OF AMERICA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Anthony ROBINSON and Lillie M. Robinson, Defendants, United States Postal Service, Garnishee-Defendant Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 25, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin A. Smith, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Donald L. Beckner, U.S. Atty., Darrell D. White, Asst. U.S. Atty., Baton Rouge, La., Leonard Schaitman, Richard A. Olderman, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Before RONEY, GEE and FAY, Circuit Judges.

BY THE COURT.

This is a commercial garnishment case which raises the issue of whether the United States Postal Service (USPS), as the statutory successor to the Post Office Department,1 retained the Post Office Department's sovereign immunity from state garnishment proceedings.

The garnishment proceedings in the instant case were begun in the District Court of the State of Louisiana against the USPS. The case was removed to the...

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