Update: here’s more Horne talk, in addition to our own initial thoughts in the above video and this post (“Magna Raisins: 8-1 SCOTUS Says There’s A Taking, But Not All Agree On Remedy“):
- “Today’s Other Supreme Court Property Rights Decision” (our post about City of Los Angeles v. Patel, No. 13-1175, in which the Court held that hotel owners need to have the opportunity to require the police to obtain a warrant before they can inspect the hotel registry)
- “Supreme Court decision on federal raisin rules likely to reshape industry” (McClatchy)
- “Prepare for Life After the National Raisin Reserve” (Bloomberg)
- “Supreme Court Sides With Raisin Farmers in Property Rights Case” (Adam Liptak at the New York Times)
- “The Government Has to Pay for the Raisins It Confiscates” (Ilya Shapiro at Cato)
- “Victory Over The Raisin Administrative Committee: The New Deal Case That Took 80 Years To Bring” (Trevor Burris at Forbes)
- “Of Raisins and Property Rights” (Roger Pilon at Cato)
- “United States Supreme Court Finds for Raisin Farmers in Takings Case” (Texas A&M AgriLife)
- “‘Raisin Case’ Could Have Broad Impact” (Holland & Knight regulatory litigation blog)
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Here’s what everyone’s saying about today’s Supreme Court decision in Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 14-275.
- “SCOTUS sides with raisin farmers in just compensation case” (The Hill)
- “In Major Victory for Property Rights, SCOTUS Strikes Down USDA Seizure of California Raisins” (Reason.com blog)
- “Breaking News: Supreme Court Rules Federal Agricultural Program a Taking” (lawprof Richard Frank at LegalPlanet blog)
- “Raisin the Bar” (Wall Street Journal)*
- “Supreme Court routs raisin racket” (USA Today)
- “Supreme Court Rules For California Farmer Over Government Raisin Program” (Huffington Post)
- “Raisin Farmers defeat Feds at Supreme Court” (Legal Insurrection)**
- “High court strikes down raisin program as unconstitutional” (Associated Press)
- “The right to use your property isn’t a privilege the government can force you to pay for” (Tim Sandefur at PLF’s Liberty Blog)
- “Property owners prevail in raisin takings case” (lawprof Ilya Somin at Volokh)
- “Horne Decided. California Raisins – 2. Government – 0” (lawprof Gideon Kanner)
- “Slam dunk win for plaintiffs in Horne (raisin Takings case)–but I don’t fully agree” (lawprof David Bernstein at Volokh)
- “Rebel Raisin Farmer Wins Supreme Court Battle” (Sky News)
- “Supreme Court sides with Fresno farmer in raisin dispute” (Los Angeles Times)
- “Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Fresno Raisin Grower” (AgNetWest)
- “High court strikes down raisin program as unconstitutional” (PBS)
- “Supreme Court rules in favor of dissident raisin growers” (Fresno Bee)
* This case surely will be a boon to law review authors and editors, working up those title puns. E.g., “Raisin Cane,” “Raisin the Bar,” “fruitful decision,” and the like (for example, see this Daily Show video).
** See, we told you: the lede on this story: “The wrath of grapes is on the government.”