tax-foreclosure
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-451 | Faytima Howard v. Macomb County, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Rehearing | Relisted (2) | constitutional-challenge just-compensation property-rights state-procedure takings-clause tax-foreclosure | 1. Does the government violate the Takings Clause's "categorical duty" to pay just compensation for property taken in excess of the taxes, fees, and p… |
| 25A139 | Faytima Howard v. Macomb County, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-04 | Presumed Complete | fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights surplus-proceeds takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Whether the government violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it retains surplus proceeds from a tax foreclosure sale beyond the amou… | |
| 24A1140 | Johanna McGee, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jacqueline McGee, et al. v. Alger County Treasurer, et al. | Michigan | 2025-05-23 | Presumed Complete | due-process notice-requirements property-rights surplus-proceeds takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Whether the government violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process and takings protections when it retains surplus proceeds from tax for… | |
| 24-858 | Kari Beeman, et al. v. Muskegon County Treasurer | Michigan | 2025-02-11 | Rehearing | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | constitutional-law due-process just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Does Michigan's tax foreclosure claims statute violate due process and the right to just compensation, and should the Court overrule Nelson v. City of… |
| 24-765 | Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | circuit-split comity-principles constitutional-takings federal-abstention property-rights tax-foreclosure | Whether federal courts must abstain from constitutional takings cases that seek to recover only the surplus value of a property that was taken pursuan… | |
| 24A499 | Kari Beeman, et al. v. Muskegon County Treasurer | Michigan | 2024-11-20 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-taking due-process property-rights surplus-proceeds takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Whether the government's retention of surplus proceeds from a tax foreclosure sale, where property owners failed to file an administrative claim form,… | |
| 24-76 | David Hill, Individually and dba DOH Oil Company v. Huntley Fort Gill, et al. | Texas | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure constitutional-notice due-process judicial-procedure notice property-rights statute-of-limitations tax-foreclosure | Whether a statute can limit the time to challenge a tax sale for lack of constitutionally adequate notice to the owner, provided that the statute does… |
| 22-996 | Tawanda Hall, et al. v. Andrew Meisner, Oakland County Treasurer, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-punishment constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause property-forfeiture takings tax-foreclosure | Whether the forfeiture of property worth far more than needed to satisfy a debt plus interest, penalties, and costs is a fine within the meaning of th… | |
| 22-894 | Andrew Meisner, Oakland County Treasurer, et al. v. Marion Sinclair | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-law due-process equitable-title foreclosure municipal-government property-rights property-tax surplus-proceeds takings takings-clause tax-delinquency tax-foreclosure | Whether foreclosing on a home for the nonpayment of taxes constitutes a violation of the federal Takings Clause whenever the home is worth more than t… |
| 22-874 | Andrew Meisner, Oakland County Treasurer, et al. v. Tawanda Hall, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law due-process equitable-title foreclosure municipal-law property-rights surplus-proceeds takings takings-clause tax-delinquency tax-foreclosure | Whether foreclosing on a home for the nonpayment of taxes constitutes a violation of the federal Takings Clause whenever the home is worth more than t… |
| 22-294 | County of Ontario, New York v. Brian Gunsalus, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy-code bfp-v-resolution-trust-corp due-process foreclosure fraudulent-conveyance judicial-oversight real-estate-titles state-law tax-collection tax-foreclosure | Did the Second Circuit err in refusing to extend the holding of BFP to a lawfully conducted tax foreclosure? |
| 22-160 | Kevin L. Fair v. Continental Resources, et al. | Nebraska | 2022-08-22 | GVR | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | due-process equity-forfeiture excessive-fine excessive-fines government-seizure just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Does the government violate the Takings Clause when it confiscates property worth more than the debt owed by the owner? |
| 20-7261 | Randell Joseph Redmond v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech just-compensation property-rights standing takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a motion to dismiss a civil-rights, due-process, free-speech claim |
| 20-5901 | Laura Marie Scott v. City of Hamtramck, Michigan, Treasurer, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | IFP | choice-of-law comity equity federal-contracts property-rights quasi-in-rem quasi-in-rem-action tax-foreclosure title | Does a violation of choice-of-law create a quasi-in-rem-action that reverses itself to preclude any relief as to title or equity despite mutual and ex… |