The Buckeye Institute Calls on Michigan Supreme Court to Protect Homeowners from Unethical Government Practices
The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in Schafer v. Kent County with Michigan’s Supreme Court, arguing that Kent County violated Michigan’s just compensation clause when it sold Matthew Schafer and Harry and Lilly Hucklebury’s homes to pay delinquent property taxes and pocketed the surplus as windfall profits. “Seizing these profits was always unconstitutional, and Kent County should be embarrassed to ask the court to let it pocket these ill-gotten gains.”