The famous raisin case officially closed last week. As part of an old and ongoing government program to intervene in the raisin market to support the price, the government tried to take raisins away from a California raisin grower, Marvin Horne, and thus off the free market. When Horne and his family refused, the government assessed a huge fine and penalty. But Horne wouldn’t pay, and he went to court. His case eventually went to the Supreme Court. Last week, in an 8-1 decision, the Court decided that “the Hornes should simply be relieved of the obligation to pay the fine and associated civil penalty they were assessed when they resisted the Government’s effort to take their raisins.”
It took ten years, but it is an important victory for the Hornes, and for my colleague Mike McConnell who represented the Hornes at the Supreme Court. And it is also a…
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