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.

in their trucks on our private property which is completely gated and has no trespassing signs around the property,” he said. “We feel like we’ve been harassed.” During the court proceeding, Windham ...

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 for officers to have access to private property, which makes up 78% of the ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on a case that challenges warrantless searches by game wardens.

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 ...

interfere with the long-established Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens who seek to carry for self-defense on private property open to the public. New York state cannot enforce this ...

Two private hunting clubs ... He believes people’s property rights “vanish” on their own land through the existing laws. Anthony Kovalchick, deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania ...