The US Supreme Court Wednesday will consider the seizure of a widow’s home over roughly $2,300 in unpaid taxes—a case that pits an individual’s rights to their home equity against counties’ sovereign rights to impose local tax policy.
Geraldine Tyler, now in her 90s, moved out of her Minneapolis condominium and into a senior community in 2010 when she became concerned about crime. After she ran up a $15,000 tax debt on the condo, including fines, costs, and interest, Hennepin County sold the property for $40,000 and didn’t give Tyler the surplus.
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