WASHINGTON — Dissident California raisin farmers harvested a Supreme Court win Monday, easing future legal challenges to the decades-old program that regulates the raisin marketplace.
In a 9-0 decision that’s both technical and important, the court effectively empowered Fresno County farmer Marvin D. Horne and his allies to claim that the industry program takes their property in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
The Fifth Amendment specifies that private property can’t “be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
“I’m very happy that we got a fair and just decision,” Horne said in a telephone interview Monday. “Our Constitution is alive and well.”
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