What is amazing is not the 9-0 result but the fact that it even came to be needed. A high school student reading the constitution would reach the same opinion. One can only hope that state and local governments that enriched themselves at the expense of citizens are forced to repay their "winnings" - oh yes, with interest.
Originally posted by kluurs: What is amazing is not the 9-0 result but the fact that it even came to be needed. A high school student reading the constitution would reach the same opinion. One can only hope that state and local governments that enriched themselves at the expense of citizens are forced to repay their "winnings" - oh yes, with interest.
This only applies to tax, but hopefully it's an opening salvo for all of the various ways that state and local governments seize property and refuse to return it.
One wonders why it took so long to get a case like this before the court. If states say that this is "rooted in historical practice," that suggests lots of potential cases in the past either weren't litigated, or that courts took a different view in the past.
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