{"id":786,"date":"2024-06-16T16:50:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T16:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=786"},"modified":"2024-06-16T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T16:50:45","slug":"no-regulatory-taking-when-property-is-destroyed-by-police-to-apprehend-a-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2024\/06\/16\/no-regulatory-taking-when-property-is-destroyed-by-police-to-apprehend-a-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"No regulatory taking when property is destroyed by police to apprehend a suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a recurring, painful issue, the Fifth Circuit agreed with the majority approach in finding that it was not an unconstitutional taking of property to damage a landowner\u2019s house when that was necessary to apprehend an armed criminal intent on shooting it out with the police.<a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca5\/22-40644\/22-40644-2023-10-11.pdf?ts=1697067069\"> Baker v. City of McKinney,<\/a> 84 F.4th 378 (5th Cir. 2023), reh\u2019g denied, 93 F.4th 251 (5th Cir. 2024). This was an \u201cactive emergency\u201d that made it \u201cobjectively necessary\u2019 to damage or destroy the property to prevent imminent harm to persons. Public emergency allows the government to damage or destroy property without compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fifth Circuit justified the result as based on history and longstanding tradition, as well as precedent both before and after adoption of the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recurring, painful issue, the Fifth Circuit agreed with the majority approach in finding that it was not an unconstitutional taking of property to damage a landowner\u2019s house when that was necessary to apprehend an armed criminal intent on shooting it out with the police. Baker v. City of McKinney, 84 F.4th 378 (5th Cir. 2023), reh\u2019g denied, 93 F.4th 251 (5th Cir. 2024). This was an \u201cactive emergency\u201d that made it \u201cobjectively necessary\u2019 to damage or destroy the property to prevent imminent harm to persons. Public emergency allows the government to damage or destroy property without compensation. The Fifth Circuit justified the result as based on history and longstanding tradition, as well as precedent both before and after adoption of the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-takings"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}