There were a couple of things about this case that struck me as unusual. For one thing, it seems ridiculous that someone would default on a $2,300 tax liability and give up her home. It also seemed to me that there was probably a good reason why she has never prevailed in any trial or appellate court in this case.
“If I remember the prior article I read on this subject, a key issue at hand is that the Minnesota law on this type of seizure has a number of points in the process where the debtor can intervene on her own behalf and keep the property … but this woman apparently failed to avail herself of any such opportunities.”
Nobody is arguing that the county cannot seize the property but is deeply embedded in common law that equity is an intangible property that must be returned tto that owner upon sale of the property.
The USSC is going to make 14 states unhappy.
“There were a couple of things about this case that struck me as unusual. For one thing, it seems ridiculous that someone would default on a $2,300 tax liability and give up her home.”
She was 86 when she moved out, scared to remain in the house.
“It also seemed to me that there was probably a good reason why she has never prevailed in any trial or appellate court in this case.”
They just dismissed the case based on failure to make a claim!