The Supreme Court of the United States held that when a tax foreclosure auction is conducted fairly, the proper baseline for measuring just compensation after a tax sale is the auction sale price, not the property’s hypothetical fair market value. The Court vacated the lower court’s decision and remanded for further proceedings consistent with its opinion.

Summary disposition wrongly granted to defendants, Ingham County and its treasurer, on the claim that an unconstitutional taking of property occurred.

Oakland County’s retention of surplus proceeds from tax-foreclosure sales was an unconstitutional taking without just compensation and violated Article 10, § 2 of the MI Constitution.