(CNN) Chief Justice John Roberts reminded America of his conservative bona fides on Wednesday as he touted property rights and rejected a California regulation that allows labor union organizers temporary access to agriculture property. And he has consistently sided with business over unions and with property owners over government regulators. Wednesday's property rights case was different. The Roberts majority declared that the mandate that agricultural employers permit union access amounts to a "per se taking" requiring compensation under the Constitution. Agreeing with the employers and reversing lower court judges, Roberts wrote that a "physical appropriation" rises to the level of a taking, whether it is permanent or temporary, whether intermittent or continuous.

Source: CNN June 23, 2021 22:30 UTC