Cavaluzzi v. County of Sullivan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK GLORIA CAVALUZZI et al., Plaintiffs, 23 Civ. 11067 (PAE) ~ OPINION & ORDER COUNTY OF SULLIVAN, Defendant. PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge: In Tyler v. Hennepin County,

598 U.S. 631

(2023), the Supreme Court held that a county could be liable for taking private property without just compensation where, after foreclosing on and selling a taxpayer’s real property in order to extinguish her property tax debt, it kept for itself the proceeds of the sale beyond those necessary to extinguish the debt. That was so regardless of the fact that…