Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 23, 2021 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 23, 2021
- Term
- October Term 2020
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Roberts
- Issue area
- Due Process
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
- Constitutional ruling
- State/territorial law held unconstitutional
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2020 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus CEDAR POINT NURSERY ET AL. v. HASSID ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 20–107. Argued March 22, 2021—Decided June 23, 2021 A California regulation grants labor organizations a “right to take ac- cess” to an agricultural employer’s property in order to solicit support for unionization. Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8, §20900(e)(1)(C). The regula- tion mandates that agricultural employers allow union organizers onto their property for up to three hours per day, 120 days per year. Or- ganizers from the United Farm Workers sought to take access to prop- erty owned by two California growers—Cedar Point Nursery and Fowler Packing Company. The growers filed suit in Federal District Court seeking to enjoin enforcement of the access regulation on the grounds that it appropriated without compensation an easement for union organizers to enter their property and therefore constituted an…
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