The Supreme Court sided with a 94-year-old grandmother who sued a Minnesota county government after it sold her home over unpaid tax and pocketed the profits.
In a unanimous decision handed down on Thursday, the justices ruled that Hennepin County had violated the 5th Amendment’s prohibition on seizing private property when it sold Geraldine Tyler’s $40,000 condominium in 2015 over an unpaid $15,000 tax bill.
