(The Center Square) – According to an amicus brief filed in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas has refused to follow a Supreme Court ruling that said the county is not entitled to sovereign immunity and the unlawful confiscation of surplus equity.
Pacific Legal Foundation filed the brief saying Cook County confiscated homes over relatively small tax debts, auctioned them off and then kept the entire amount, not just taxes and penalties.
PLF asked the appeals court to affirm the district court’s finding in Michelle Kidd et al v. Pappas that the uncompensated confiscation of surplus equity violates the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth and Eighth Amendments…