Property

Justices rule Minnesota county violated takings clause

This piece was featured by SCOTUSblog.com on May 25, 2023, it was originally published at Howe on the Court. In 2016, a Minnesota county sold 94-year-old Geraldine Tyler’s condo at auction after she failed to pay her property taxes for several years. The sale yielded...

Lead and Landlords

Below is the abstract for “Lead and Landlords,” available for download on SSRN. Lead is a toxin that humans cannot safely consume. As has been known for decades, people frequently suffer exposure to lead because of its use in paint and gasoline. In recent decades,...