Editorial: The Supreme Court just fired a shot at how Illinois handles delinquent property taxes
The conservative wing objected to the dismissal of property rights. The liberals focused on egregious fines. But despite their different reasonings, the members of the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found in favor of a woman who got nothing when the government seized her condo because of $2,300 worth of unpaid property taxes and pocketed all proceeds from the sale, far more than the woman owed.
And you thought the high court’s justices didn’t agree on anything.
The court’s decision, announced May 24, involved the case of Hennepin County v. Geraldine Tyler.
