Cavaluzzi v. County of Sullivan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK GLORIA CAVALUZZI et al, Plaintiffs, 23 Civ. 11067 (PAE) -v- 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, in violation of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, where, after foreclosing on and selling a taxpayer’s real property in order to extinguish her property tax debt, it kept for itself the excess proceeds of the…