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`Re: Cedar Point Nursery, et al. v. Victoria Hassid, et al., No. 20-107
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`Honorable Scott S. Harris
`Clerk
`Supreme Court of the United States
`Washington, D.C. 20543
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`Dear Mr. Harris:
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`This case involves a California regulation that allows union organizers to enter petitioners’
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`property to speak with workers employed there, but that restricts the time, place, and manner of
`that access. On January 7, 2021, the United States f iled a brief as amicus curiae contending that
`the regulation effects a per se taking of petitioners’ property. The purpose of this letter is to notify
`the Court that the previously f iled brief no longer represents the position of the United States.
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`Following the change in Administration, the Department of Justice has reconsidered the
`government’s position in this case, and the United States is now of the view that the California
`regulation does not effect a per se taking under this Court’s precedents. The regulation does not
`authorize a “permanent physical occupation,” Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.,
`458 U.S. 419, 434 (1982), or grant the general public any “permanent and continuous right” to
`cross petitioners’ property, Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, 483 U.S. 825, 832 (1987).
`Rather, the access authorized is “temporary and limited in nature.” Loretto, 458 U.S. at 434; see
`id. at 434 n.11 (observing that a provision of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 151 et
`seq., that “requir[es] companies to permit access to union organizers,” subject to various time,
`place, and manner restrictions, grants only “ ‘temporary and limited’ ” access and therefore does
`not effect a per se taking) (citation omitted). This Court has previously recognized that such “tem-
`porary limitations on the right to exclude” differ from “[t]he permanence and absolute exclusivity
`of a physical occupation” and accordingly “are subject to” the “balancing process” adopted in
`Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104, 124 (1978). Loretto, 458 U.S.
`at 435 n.12.
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`It is therefore the position of the United States, in line with this Court’s cases, that the
`California regulation—like the authorization of temporary entry by government off icials for law
`enforcement, inspection, and similar purposes—does not constitute a per se taking. That position
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`accords with the United States’ longstanding view—which the government has repeatedly articu-
`lated in this Court and lower courts—that physical entry on property short of a permanent occupa-
`tion does not warrant the application of a categorical rule and is instead appropriately analyzed
`under a case-specif ic framework.
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`See Attached Service List
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`I would appreciate it if you would circulate this letter to the Members of the Court.
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`Sincerely,
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`Elizabeth B. Prelogar
`Acting Solicitor General
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`CEDAR POINT NURSERY, ET AL.
`HASSID, VICTORIA, ET AL.
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