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But a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year is having far-reaching implications in states such as Iowa where the law allows others to take a property over back taxes. Why treasurers and investors ...
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Kasischke argued Iowa Code section 479B.15, which allows representatives of a pipeline company to enter private land for surveying, was unconstitutional because the invasion of property required ...
The U.S. Supreme Court invited such abuses with its 2005 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London , which blessed the use of eminent domain to promote economic development by transferring property ...
Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971), is a court case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court, in which homeowners Edward and Bertha Briney were held liable for battery for injuries caused to trespasser Marvin Katko, who set off a spring gun set as a mantrap in an uninhabited house on their property. [1]
The Iowa Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Iowa.The Court is composed of a chief justice and six associate justices. The Court holds its regular sessions in Des Moines in the Iowa Judicial Branch Building located at 1111 East Court Avenue on the state Capitol grounds, south of the Iowa State Capitol.
Chelsea Koetter, a Michigan single mom, owed about $3,800 on her 2018 property taxes. So the government seized her home in 2021, sold it, and kept the $102,636 profit, despite a 2020 Michigan ...
The Court noted that Iowa has a long history of progressive thought on civil rights. Seventeen years before the Dred Scott decision, the Iowa Supreme Court "refused to treat a human being as property to enforce a contract for slavery and held our laws must extend equal protection to persons of all races and conditions."