Judges deny fight after home cops injured while chasing fugitive (1)

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor united Monday to dissent from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a woman’s fight for compensation after police destroyed her home while trying to catch a fugitive who had barricaded himself inside with a 15-year-old hostage.

In their ruling, the justices declined to consider whether the city of McKinney, Texas, should pay Vicki Baker nearly $60,000 for damage to a home she intended to sell under the Fees Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Baker said the police department’s SWAT team blew down her garage door with explosives, broke the windows and…