Supreme Court Strikes Down New Deal-Era Raisin Price-Support Program

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a raisin price-support program that dates back to the New Deal, ruling it unconstitutionally requires growers to surrender their crop to the government for future sale.

The federal program violates the Fifth Amendment prohibition of taking private property “for public use without just compensation,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court, joined in full or part by seven colleagues. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

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