Court rejects bid for compensation after police raid damaged Texas woman’s house

The Supreme Court declined on Monday morning to hear the case of a Texas woman seeking compensation for damage to her home inflicted by a SWAT team pursuing a fugitive. The denial of review in Baker v. McKinney came on a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, issued a statement regarding the court’s decision not to take up the case. She noted that the woman’s case presented an “important question that has divided the courts of appeals.”

After adding two new cases, involving challenges to the constitutionality of parts of a program by the Federal Communications Commission to improve internet and phone service in underserved areas, the justices did not grant review in any additional cases on Monday.

The justices once again did not act on several high-profile petitions for review, involving issues such as the constitutionality of the admissions program for three of Boston’s elite public high schools, challenges to bans by Idaho and West Virginia on the participation of transgender girls and women on women’s sports teams, and a challenge to a Wisconsin school district’s plan to provide support to transgender and nonbinary students. They will meet again to consider new petitions for review on Friday, Dec. 6.

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