I was going to post this earlier but here's a decision in the US court of appeals where they did the exact same thing. Only thing is, they agreed to take it out by direct deposit, which got the employer into trouble.
Whole moral of the story is, it seems to be legal according to this.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/...dc/071455p.pdf
Here's the article
http://detroitnews.com/article/20091...tempt-of-court
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