October 22, 2024
Supreme Court of the United States
“PLF advocates in favor of the highest levels of constitutional protection for property tax debtors.”
August 12, 2024
Supreme Court of the United States
“Property owners have a fundamental constitutional right to say “keep out,” and statutes authorizing third parties to enter private property without consent are presumptively takings, requiring both condemnation proceedings and the payment of just compensation.”
August 19, 2024
Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon
"The holding in Tyler is clear: when valuable property is taken to satisfy a less valuable tax debt, the former owner is entitled to just compensation for her equity interest in that property."
June 05, 2024
Supreme Court of New Jersey
"When a regulation dedicates private property rights to public use, without just compensation, it is contrary to the Fifth Amendment and unconstitutional. But the court below did not see it that way."
June 12, 2024
Supreme Court of Texas
"When local authorities must destroy a person’s house for local law enforcement, they must pay just compensation."
August 01, 2024
Supreme Court of the United States
"This Court should hold that the right to just compensation is self-executing,and that Louisiana courts may issue writs of mandamus ordering the Sewerage &Water Board—and any future nonpaying entities—to pay for the property it took and damaged."
April 26, 2024
The Supreme Court of Louisiana
On the merits, PLF tells the Court the Fifth Amendment’s Takings clause is self-executing and applies to the states. Victims of government-caused flooding need not file statutory civil rights claims, and their just compensation is not blocked by sovereign immunity.
November 17, 2023
Supreme Court of the United States
Michigan passed a statute creating a labyrinthine process for recovering equity after a tax foreclosure. PLF tells their supreme court that full, just compensation in compliance with Rafaeli and Tyler should be perfectly simple.
October 31, 2023
Michigan Supreme Court