PHOENIX — A judge has slapped down efforts by a group of lenders, debt collectors and their attorneys to void new voter-approved protections from creditors.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Blanchard rejected arguments by challengers to Proposition 209 that a provision of what outstanding debts were affected are so “vague” and “unintelligible” to make the entire law legally unenforceable. He said there’s nothing confusing about it.
In fact, Blanchard said the language in the new law that attorney Brett Johnson is challenging already exists in a 1986 version of a similar law. And yet, he said, lawyers and the courts have managed to work with it for years.
