The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court considered whether Philadelphia’s selective reassessment in Tax Year 2018 of only commercial properties violated the Uniformity Clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution. After a bench trial, the
A school district designed a formula for properties within its catchment to determine if the district should appeal a particular property’s assessed value. Using that calculation, the district determined that
The plaintiffs brought this action under the New Jersey Civil Rights Act (CRA), N.J.S.A. 10:6-1 to -2, and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, alleging that the Tax Collector and
In Choe v. From the Decision of the Philadelphia Bd. of Revision of Taxes, Appellants, who are current or former owners of condo units, appealed from an order of the
In Burba v. Indiana Co. Tax Claim Bureau, the Burbas appealed from the trial court’s order, which denied their petition to overturn a tax sale of their property. On appeal,
An en banc panel of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in Mandler v. Pennsylvania overruled the taxpayers’ exceptions to a prior panel’s opinion. The taxpayers claimed that they were entitled to the
The dispute in City of Newark v. Twp. of Jefferson centered on the Township’s tax assessment of the City’s property, situated within the Township, for years 2009 through 2016. The
In In re Appeal of Coatesville Area Sch. Dist., the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did an admirable job of differentiating and explaining the two preclusion doctrines — res judicata and collateral
In Garden State Inv. v. Twp. of Brick, the Appellate Division agreed with the Chancery Division that purchasers of tax sale certificates could not rescind the purchase and receive back
The New Jersey Supreme Court wisely declined the opportunity to jump into the wormhole of self-procured insurance issued by unauthorized, out-of-state insurers. Instead, in Johnson & Johnson v. Dir., Div.
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