The Fifth Amendment protects the right to private property in two ways. First, it states that a person may not be deprived of property by the government without “due process of law,” or fair ...

According to Pennsylvania law, your land is not your possession and affords no expectation of privacy. That was the argument ...

This was a new one: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued that confiscating $50,000 from a small business did not infringe the business' right to private property because money is not property.

The opinion in a U.S. District Court decision that has made corner crossing legal in the 10th District notes, “as Wyoming ...

Citizens of Woodstock are understandably divided over the city’s legal hardball to take private property for public parking a ...

DNR Law Enforcement Chief Jason Haines disagrees about the necessity of this proposal. He told the TV station it’s important ...

The Pa. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday regarding whether the Pa. Game Commission can freely access posted private properties.

No more. The public has a right to Lucia Sanchez’s private property—so decrees the state. “Property rights were once sacred here,” she says. “You always had to ask permission before you ...