Seemiller v. Amato

NANOVIC, P.J.,

“Before a state may take property and sell it for unpaid taxes, the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the government to provide the owner ‘notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case.’ ” So begins the decision by the United States Supreme Court in Jones v. Flowers, 547 U.S. 220, 126 S.Ct. 1708, 1712, 164 L.Ed.2d 415 (2006) (quoting Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306, 313, 70 S.Ct. 652, 94 L.Ed. 865 (1950)). It is also, as we shall see, the answer to the issue presented by the Bennett Family Trust in its…