December 12, 2025

Legal experts in a discussion of the new Supreme Court term, discuss what decisions local governments should watch. The Supreme Court will rule on several major cases this term, including issues related to: 

  • Whether providing a former homeowner with the difference of the sales price and the tax debt after a tax foreclosure on real property instead of the fair market value and the tax debt constitutes either a Taking under the Fifth Amendment or an Excessive Fine under the Eighth Amendment
  • The standard under the Fourth Amendment for warrantless entries into a home for non-criminal emergencies 
  • A Second Amendment challenge to state laws that ban conceal carry permit holders from bringing firearms onto private property absent the property owners express consent
  • Presidential authority to fire independent heads of agencies