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PIERCE v. VISION INVESTMENTS, INC.

No. 84-1642.

765 F.2d 539 (1985)

Samuel R. PIERCE, Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. VISION INVESTMENTS, INC., Vision Village, Inc., Lakin D. Kirk, and Nancy J. Kirk, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 19, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne Dickey, Waco, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Mark H. Gallant, Mark B. Stern, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, WILLIAMS, and HILL, Circuit Judges.

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 contemners 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...

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