Legal Opinion
Clifton v. Allegheny County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 29, 2009No. 20 WAP 2007, 21 WAP 2007PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*669 OPINION
Chief Justice CASTILLE.
“Controversies growing out of the assessment and collection of taxes are as old as civilization. To question the assessment, to doubt the levy, and to delay the collector may be classed among those inalienable rights of mankind not guaranteed by any Constitution, but very generally asserted under the law of human nature.” Delaware, L. & W.R. Co. ’s Tax Assessment, 224 Pa. 240, 73 A. 429, 430 (1909). The present appeals call for us to consider the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s property assessment laws.1 Presently, the assessment laws of the Commonwealth…
2Cases cited58 opinions
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- Washington v. GlucksbergSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
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3Cited by106 opinions
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