Not really. Unless you have a No Trespassing sign up, nobody is on notice that it's wrong to knock on your front door and that it might cost them hundreds of dollars if you do.
well i didn't necessarily mean that Dog... more like, a man's home is his castle type thing..
in other words.. that beings the incident took place on her private property it had bearing on the ruling?
that's my hope... because otherwise it should have been tossed out. and probably should have been anyway.