AARP, Others Support Petition In Class Suit Over Property Seizure For Tax Debt

Mealey's (September 27, 2022, 12:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should take up the appeal in a putative class complaint concerning the seizure of the full equity of a residence by Minnesota tax authorities even when the tax debt owed was less than the property was sold for and should “consider the human cost of such laws for the nation’s older citizens in particular,” the AARP and AARP Foundation argue in one of seven amicus curiae briefs supporting the petitioner, a Minnesota woman who was 93 when her home was seized....