https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/10\/10\/this-indiana-city-doesnt-have-to-pay-an-innocent-mom-16000-after-police-wrecked-her-home-court-rules\/?nab=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Law enforcement launched 30 tear gas canisters into Amy Hadley’s home, smashed windows, ransacked furniture, destroyed security cameras, and more. The government gave her nothing.<\/p>\n
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An Indiana woman whose home sustained severe damage during a police raid set in motion by a faulty investigation is not legally entitled to compensation, a federal court ruled this week, in yet another case that asked what innocent people are owed when the government destroys their property in pursuit of public safety.<\/p>\n
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Such suits primarily hinge on one question: Does the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment\u2014which promises that the government cannot take private property without providing “just compensation”\u2014apply when the government is exercising its “police power”?<\/p>\n
Several federal courts have answered in the negative.<\/p>\n
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Cases with similarly situated plaintiffs have worked their way through the courts in recent years. Leo Lech’s $580,000 family home in Greenwood Village, Colorado, was condemned and demolished after police effectively destroyed it while pursuing a suspect who had broken in and barricaded himself inside. The city gave him $5,000. Los Angeles business owner Carlos Pena saw his printing shop and equipment ruined, and his livelihood crippled, in the same scenario: A fugitive, unrelated to Pena, broke in while trying to evade police. The government declined to pay him damages, which exceed $60,000; a ruling on the matter is forthcoming from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.” <\/p>\n
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