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Too many courts ignore the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines.
Updated on June 24 at 9:35 a.m. Tuesday’s decision in Pung v. Isabella County squarely rejects an argument that the longstanding use of tax foreclosure sales as a method to collect...
A 1996 law allowing fines for some immigrants was rarely used — until Donald Trump’s second term began.
The Pung family of Isabella County, Michigan, maintained they were entitled to fair market value. The high court disagreed, but with a twist.
Where a man moved to set aside a default judgment ordering the civil forfeiture of approximately $21,000 seized from him during an arrest, his petition was denied. He failed to […]...
The ruling comes after the FCC conceded that its so-called forfeiture orders don't actually have legal teeth until the agency brings a collection suit before a federal judge, at wh...
Modest reforms have helped, but civil forfeiture remains legalized theft by government agencies.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sent a dispute over the compensation that a Michigan county was required to pay to a homeowner after it sold his house because of unpaid taxes back to...
In a decision closely watched by local governments, tax-lien investors, and property owners nationwide, the United States Supreme Court just issued its long-anticipated opinion in...
Apparently breaking the law and attacking police is not enough. Now you can get paid for it.
Few Americans would read the facts in Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety without being disturbed. According to Damon Landor and the state of Louisiana,...
Fair market value often fails to fully compensate property owners for their losses. This makes the Supreme Court's recent decision allowing compensation below fair market value eve...
The Court ruled that local goverments may pay compensation far below fair market value for property seized in tax foreclosures.
On June 30, the DOJ announced that a community bank entered into a non-prosecution agreement and agreed to pay more than $9.7 million to resolve an investigation into violations of...
In Solano v. City of Chicago, an Illinois Appellate Court upheld a home rule municipality’s authority to use its administrative adjudication hearing system and fine drivers of over...
Small fines may become less common
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