![]() Would the city have to share the proceeds with the owner? Answer - yes. TOTENBERG: Justice Alito noted that some cities impound cars when the owner has unpaid taxes or tickets, and if the amount due is not paid, the cars are sold. What's the county supposed to do to protect itself? SONIA SOTOMAYOR: OK, here you have a debtor who basically doesn't want to do anything. And indeed, at the founding, some states did have laws like Minnesota's. Chief Justice Roberts noted that traditionally such matters are left to state law. Lawyer Christina Martin said that amounts to a taking of property without just compensation, something that the Constitution explicitly forbids. In the Supreme Court today, Tyler's lawyer argued that the county unconstitutionally took the property by keeping the $25,000 over the amount owed in back taxes. ![]() By 2015, she owed $15,000 in unpaid taxes, interest and fees, and the county, after offering her a tax payment plan for seniors as well as other options, seized the condo and sold it at public auction for $40,000. It's undisputed that after that, she failed to pay her property taxes on the condo, despite being repeatedly notified that she risked losing it if she didn't pay up. NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: Geraldine Tyler bought her condo in 1999 and lived there until 2010, when at age 81, she moved to a senior living center at the urging of her children. And as NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports, today's argument suggests that grandma is likely to win. Now, the case is important because Minnesota is one of 20 states that handle the sales of such defaulted properties without sharing the proceeds with the previous owner. Today, the Supreme Court heard its last scheduled argument of the term, a case brought by a 94-year-old widowed grandmother in Minneapolis whose condominium was seized for failure to pay property taxes.
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