Supreme Court delivers rulings in favor of homeowners in property disputes.

The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a 94-year-old woman who claimed that Hennepin County violated the Constitution by keeping a $25,000 profit when it sold her home in a tax foreclosure sale. The court unanimously concluded that Geraldine Tyler can pursue her argument that the county's decision to keep the surplus violated the takings clause of the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, which requires that the government pay compensation when property is taken. The Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented Tyler, calls the practice “home equity theft.”