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The plan violates the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition on involuntary servitude. Both Congress and the United States Supreme Court recognize that, by requiring an individual debtor to commit future earnings to the funding of a plan, [the bankruptcy law could] run afoul of the constitutional prohibitions on peonage and indentured servitude.
— Lawyers for 50 Cent, arguing in court papers that a proposed debt repayment plan for the rapper, a plan that was suggested by his creditors (including a woman who won $7 million from him in a sex-tape dispute), would amount to a “form of modern-day indentured servitude.” His lawyers claim that under the plan, 50 Cent would only receive “access to food and shelter on the whims of [opposing counsel].”