Elderly Woman To High Court: Excessive Property Seizure Violates Constitution

(February 28, 2023, 10:46 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Minnesota woman who was 93 when her home was seized and sold for $40,000 to satisfy a $15,000 debt tells the U.S. Supreme Court in her Feb. 27 petitioner brief that her putative class complaint should be allowed to proceed as the government should not “have an unbounded ability to confiscate entire properties of any size for even the most minimal tax debts” and that where the seizure is more than what is owed, it “is a fine subject to the Excessive Fines Clause” of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution....