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Henrieta Pisztora, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al.

Paid petition · Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, No. 897 C.D. 2017 · judgment November 1, 2019

Certiorari denied · November 16, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether Pennsylvania’s Second Class City Treasurer’s Sale and Collection Act (53 P.S. §27101, et seq) violates the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, because it deprives citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of their real property without due process of law, when defective service of written notice, including, to “dead people”, does not void the tax sale and the subsequent forfeiture of real property.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Deborah Ruth Erbstein
Goldberg Kamin & Garvin, LLP

For respondent
Lawrence Henry Baumiller
City of Pittsburgh Deparment of Law

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 16 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 28 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/13/2020.
  3. Oct 07 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent City of Pittsburgh to respond filed.
  4. Sep 11 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 19, 2020)