The Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday concerning a 94-year-old Minnesota woman whose home was seized by the state for unpaid taxes and never saw the excess proceeds from the home’s eventual sale.
The case
, Tyler v. Hennepin County, surrounds allegations that the local government engaged in a practice of “home equity theft,” according to her legal counsel, which is the concept of the government taking an owner’s property to cover outstanding debt without returning the sale amount beyond what is owed.
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR MINNESOTA HOME EQUITY QUESTION
“When the government takes more than it is owed in taxes, that’s home equity theft,” Pacific Legal Foundation senior attorney Christina Martin, who will be arguing the case on behalf of Tyler, said in a statement.
Geraldine Tyler moved from her one-bedroom Minneapolis condo into an apartment
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