Condo Owner, Amicus To High Court:  Excessive Property Seizure Violates Constitution

Mealey's (March 2, 2023, 9:31 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A law professor filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on March 1 in support of a Minnesota woman who was 93 when her home was seized and sold for $40,000 to satisfy a $15,000 debt and who tells the high court in her 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.”...