In 2014, Oakland County, Michigan foreclosed on a home owned by Uri Rafaeli's business—Rafaeli, LLC—over an $8.41 tax debt. The County sold the property for $24,500, and kept profits. Ditto for Andre Ohanessian, when the County seized and sold his property for $82,000, and pocketed every penny left over from the $6,000 tax debt. While most stat ...
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Washington, D.C.; September 4, 2020: Can the government give a private company tax-delinquent land—and the owner's equity in it—without providing adequate notice to the property owner? That's the question that Walter Barnette is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to answer. Barnette owned a plot of land in an Omaha, Nebraska, suburb, but fell ...
Seattle; September 3, 2020: Several Seattle landlords filed a lawsuit today against state and city rules that prohibit landlords from evicting tenants. The rules, adopted in response to the pandemic, violate landlords' rights to freely use and occupy their property. Mark Travers designed and built multi-family housing in Seattle, which he and his ...
Greenbelt, Maryland; September 1, 2020: A group of parents filed a lawsuit today, alleging racial discrimination in the admissions process for magnet schools of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). In 2018, MCPS rolled out a new admissions process for its magnet middle schools, citing "racial and socioeconomic disparities in the enrollment and ...
Sorting through the various reading lists for "doing the work," that is, educating oneself about race and equality in America, there's one piece that's conspicuously absent: The Constitution. As the nation's most important document devoted to equality, it should top the list. Throughout history, civil rights leaders have relied on the Constitution ...
"Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no Blacks at all." These were the instructions of Milton Winternitz, the dean of Yale Medical School, from 1920-1935. Racial quotas have a sordid history. And yet 100 years later, California still hasn't learned. Not long after Dean Winternitz imposed racial quotas ...
New Braunfels, Texas, bills itself as "the tubing capital of America." Every year, individuals travel to the city to enjoy its rivers, lakes and first-rate water park — Schlitterbahn. But this year, while Schlitterbahn was allowed to remain open, businesses that rent inner tubes and rafts to people who want to float down New Braunfels's ...
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