Pedro Amezquita v. Rafael Hernandez Colon

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• holding that persons squatting on public land did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy because they “knew they had no colorable claim to occupy the land”
• holding that group of sguatters who occupied government-owned land had no viable section 1983 claims 5 against the government when the structures in which they were living were demolished by state actors
• holding that members of a squatter community had no reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes on government-owned land, because they “had no colorable claim to occupy the land [and] had been asked twice to depart voluntarily”
• noting that the plaintiffs “knew they had no colorable claim to occupy the land” and that the commonwealth had twice asked them to depart voluntarily
• stating that squatters on public land could not avail themselves of Fourth Amendment protection
• noting plaintiffs “knew they had no colorable claim to occupy the land” on government-owned land

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).