Supreme Court rules in favor of elderly woman in property dispute.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a 94-year-old Minneapolis woman, Geraldine Tyler, after Hennepin County in Minnesota kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a small unpaid tax bill. The justices ruled that the county violated Tyler's constitutional rights by taking her property without paying "just compensation." Minnesota is among roughly a dozen states and the District of Columbia that allow local jurisdictions to keep the excess money from those types of transactions. The Court's ruling makes clear that home equity theft is not only unjust, but unconstitutional.