I don’t know anything about civil suits, but from the outside looking in it seems like it’s very easy for defendants to dodge, delay, withhold payment, hide assets, etc. When a judgement is handed down, how is it enforced? And how often, if ever, are assets seized/frozen?
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I remember there was a story a number of years ago about a couple that successfully sued a major national bank for (I think) wrongfully foreclosing on them? Or *something* of that nature. Anyway, they won, but the bank never responded to demands to pay out, so the court gave them a court order saying they could seize the banks assets.
They showed up to the local branch with the sheriff, who read the court order to the bank manager and explained that, by law, the couple was allowed to start just taking stuff from the branch. They were allowed to seize the bank’s property, so anything inside that building was fair game.
The bank paid what they owed *very* quickly after the branch manager called corporate and let them know what was happening.
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