Escheating scandal?
The Volokh Conspiracy 2016-02-29
Summary:
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, faults some states today for insufficiently notifying property owners before “escheating their financial assets” — confiscating them on the grounds that they are supposedly abandoned. See Taylor v. Lee, a statement concurring in the Supreme Court’s refusal to review one such case; the opinion notes that “The […]