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A California regulation lets labor organizers enter private property to meet with farmworkers. In a case the court will hear Monday, challengers say that regulations amounts to a government taking of property. The case represents the court’s first major encounter with a labor dispute since the arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, has the potential to define what union organizers can do on California farms. But it could also have far-reaching consequences beyond such campaigns, including limiting the government’s ability to enter private property to conduct health and safety inspections of facilities like coal mines and pharmaceutical plants.