MORE ON THE BIG 8-1 WIN FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS AT THE SUPREME COURT TODAY:

The Court ruled in favor of the property owners by an 8-1 margin on the most significant issue at stake: whether the government’s appropriation of the raisins is a taking. Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

This is an extremely important result, because it rejects the government’s dangerous argument that the Takings Clause offers less protection for personal property than for real property (the legal term for property in land), which had been embraced by the Ninth Circuit lower court decision.

Ilya Somin says more here about the ruling and why it is so important. And kudos to Stanford law professor Michael McConnell, who argued this case.