Property tax appeals
Vexler v. Don Spencer
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Mitchell and Catherine Vexler and Jim and Gloria Solinski asked whether Texas could require them to use an administrative process that could not grant the future-looking relief they sought, and whether their federal due-process challenge was timely after the state’s highest court denied rehearing.
- Who it affects
- The denial did not resolve the Vexlers' and Solinskis' claims or decide either legal question.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear the case (denied review) and did not decide either question.
The dispute involved the Denton Central Appraisal District's chief appraiser and Texas state-court foreclosure proceedings.
Question presented
1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a State to make an administrative remedy exclusive when the designated tribunal lacks authority to grant the prospective relief sought, leaving no state court able to adjudicate the claim. 2. Whether a federal due-process objection to a state court's final foreclosure of all available remedies is timely under 28 U.S.C. § 1257 when the objection could not become complete until the state court of last resort denied rehearing.
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