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Retiree’s Home Taken for $8.41 Tax Bill Draws Michigan Supreme Court Ire
by Jayson Hawkins
A 1999 Michigan state law provided for properties with unpaid taxes to be seized and rapidly resold by county treasurers. While this practice is not uncommon across the nation, a peculiarity of the Michigan statute has proven to have had unforeseen consequences, namely the part that let ...
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- Wrongly Convicted North Carolina Man Released After 44 Years in Prison, by Douglas Ankney
- Law Review Article: Plea Bargains Lack Transparency, by David Reutter
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