Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit September 25, 1978, 78-1512 (Associates Financial Services of America, Inc. v. Anthony Robinson and Lillie M. Robinson, United States Postal Service, Garnishee-Defendant)

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,

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retained the Post Office Department’s sovereign immunity from state garnishment proceedings.