Good decision, I wonder if the vote was close (5-4) or one sided (9-0)?
8-1 with the wise Latino dissenting.
5-4. Although the other three Libs issues squishy decisions that agree with the majority in part.
It was 5-4. Another squeaker.
8-1
Great decision, yet Raisins are apparently more important to at least 5 of these court members than unborn children or Christian values .
Regarding whether there was a taking, the vote was 8-1 that there was a taking. Justice Sonia "The Wise Latina" Sotomayor was the sole dissenter, believing the raisins were voluntarily given as a condition of being allowed to sell them in interstate commerce.
Regarding just compensation, the vote was 5-3-1 in favor of the fair market value of the raisins the Department of Agriculture attempted to steal (and then fined the grower the FMV after failing). Three would remand this part of the case so the trial judge or a jury could deduct from the compensation the supposed benefit the grower received from the program. Sotomayor would have given no compensation on the ground that there was no taking.
8-1 with Sotomayor dissenting. Breyer, Kagan, and Ginsburg wrote a concurring opinion.