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Federal court rejects Third Amendment claim

Federal court rejects Third Amendment claim, say police are allowed to quarter in private homes without the owner’s consent By Ilya Somin March 23 Back in 2013, a lot of attention focused on a Third Amendment claim against Henderson, Nevada police officers. I wrote about the case here. The Third Amendment, which forbids the “quartering” of “soldiers” in private homes without the owner’s consent, is often the butt of jokes because it is so rarely litigated. But in this case, a Nevada family claimed that local police had violated the Amendment by forcibly occupying their home in order to gain… View Article