Supreme Court to Hear Oral Argument on Whether Raisin Program Violates Farmers’ Property Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument tomorrow, April 22, at 10 a.m., in Horne v. U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture, a challenge to the federal government’s Depression-era raisin marketing program. The farmers challenging the program, Marvin and Laura Horne, assert that federal officials routinely violate private property rights by seizing raisins in an effort to curtail supply and thereby drive up prices. At 1 p.m. tomorrow, WLF will host a webinar (available at www.wlf.org) that will discuss the oral argument and likely outcome of the case.