Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid

On January 7, 2021, the Liberty Justice Center filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid. The Liberty Justice Center’s brief argued that the 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act—a law empowering union officials to regularly access agricultural employers’ land for activities like union recruitment, without compensating employers for the use of their land—violated the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause.

On June 23, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Act violates the Fifth Amendment and held that agricultural employers must receive just compensation for the use of their land because “the access regulation grants labor organizations a right to invade the growers’ property” and therefore “constitutes a per se physical taking.”