Professor Michael McConnell is cited in this USA Today article on the Supreme Courts ruling in Horne v. Department of Agriculture, in which McConnell argued that the governement must pay a raisin farmer under the Fifith Amendment to the Constitution. 

Score one for the little guy.

The Supreme Court sided with a renegade raisin farmer Monday in his battle against a federal program designed to keep excess raisins off the market.

A majority of justices ruled that the Agriculture Department program, which seizes excess raisins from producers in order to prop up market prices during bumper crop years, amounted to an unconstitutional government “taking.”

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Horne’s lawyer, Stanford University law professor Michael McConnell, argued that the government must pay him for the raisins under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits that “private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”