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  • SCOTUS justices face off over “ridiculous” raisin law, property rights

    04/23/2015 7:36:29 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Hotair ^ | 04/23/2015 | Mary Katharine Ham
    Jazz Shaw referenced a case this week we’ve been watching at HotAir since it was argued the first time, on more narrow grounds, at the Supreme Court a couple years ago. The question at the heart of this round of oral arguments on an archaic raisin regulatory regime: Can the government confiscate substantial parts of a farmer’s crops in a bid to keep the prices of that crop stable as part of a long-ago established regulatory structure, without paying the farmer. The Hornes of California disobeyed the government’s orders to give over the literal fruits of their labors and...