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Legal Advocates Ask Supreme Court to End Home Equity Seizures in Tax Foreclosures

October 15, 2025

BOSTON, MA — The Pioneer New England Legal Foundation (Legal Foundation), Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), and law firm Greenberg Traurig filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of homeowners in two Michigan cases that could determine how far governments can go in taking property for unpaid taxes.

PNELF Admonishes DOR for Inaction on Unauthorized and Unconstitutional Commercial Tax Overcharges

August 14, 2025

The Pioneer New England Legal Foundation (PNELF) is calling out the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) for refusing to act on clear evidence that the City of Boston is penalizing commercial taxpayers for exercising their constitutional right to appeal overassessments.

PNELF AND ABA TO HOST EVENT ON STEWARD HEALTH COLLAPSE

July 27, 2025

WHEN: September 4, 2025 at 1 p.m. WHERE: Sullivan and Worcester,…

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Pioneer New England Legal Foundation (PNELF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan legal research and litigation entity, organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. PNELF is a public-interest law firm that defends and promotes educational options, accountable government and economic opportunity across the Northeast and around the country. Through legal action and public education, PNELF works to preserve and enhance liberties grounded in the constitutions and civil rights laws of the United States and the individual New England states.

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With the partisan divide, policy making on crucial topics can be challenging. To accelerate social progress, we work to bring policy questions to a dispassionate, fact-based forum — the judiciary.

Pioneer Public Interest Law Center is nonpartisan and takes a professional approach in its efforts to protect the rights of New Englanders and all Americans to pursue their lives as free and responsible citizens.

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Educational opportunity is of cardinal importance in a just and merit-based society.

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Government power must be transparent, limited, accountable and used to protect the rights of citizens.

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OPPORTUNITY

Markets free from unwarranted intrusion provide the greatest opportunity for the greatest number.

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