( October 21, 2026, 10:48 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied Chicago vehicle owners’ petition seeking review in their putative class case alleging that Chicago’s vehicle forfeiture scheme violates the U.S. Constitution’s takings clause; however, Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a statement in which Justice Neil M. Gorsuch joined to “encourage courts considering this issue to take care that due deference to state police powers does not eclipse constitutional rights.”...