Re: 7 - I think that’s a stretch - Plaintiffs Rainwaters and Hollingsworth did not raise 3rd Amendment issues as far as I have have to date.
Does sound like the case was properly decided.
With that said, Hollingsworth sounds like a turd. He plead guilty to dove baiting, paid a $3,000 fine and lost his TN hunting privileges for three years.
The British used to house soldiers in the homes of suspected insurrectionists in order to spy on them. The 3rd amendment's intent was to keep the home free from "prying eyes and ears" of the government.
In that sense, it's not a stretch to ban the government from placing cameras and microphones on someone's property without a warrant of probable cause in order to observe the goings on. They can do it from public property, but not directly on one's own property.
Coming onto one's property to search for crimes without a warrant would violate the 4th amendment; planting permanent cameras and microphones on one's property to watch for crimes would violate the 3rd amendment.
-PJ