Supreme Court Raisin Case

The Supreme Court ruled earlier this week in Horne et al. v. Department of Agriculture, the raisin case that we wrote about here a few months back. The opinion, by Chief Justice Roberts, was essentially 8 to 1 (with Justice Sotomayor the dissenter) that forcing farmers to turn over their raisins to the federal government amounted to a "taking" that violated the Fifth Amendment.