U.S. Files Amicus Brief In High Court Case Over Seizure Of Elderly Woman’s Condo

Mealey's ( March 13, 2023, 2:40 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An elderly woman who brought a putative class complaint after her condominium was seized by a Minnesota county and sold for $40,000 to satisfy a $15,000 tax debt stated a claim for compensable taking; however, the county’s actions did not constitute a fine subject to the excessive fines clause in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the United States argues in an amicus curiae brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of neither side....