| Tomás Martinez - Business & Economics - 178 pages
...maximum working hours, the US Supreme Court held such legislation to be unconstitutional and stated: Statutes of the nature of that under review limiting...mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual.19 In short, we see that the attempts of the legislatures to find some sort of regulation... | |
| Constitutional law - 1990 - 540 pages
...New York statute limiting employment in bakeries to ten hours a day, stating that statutes limning the hours in which "grown and intelligent men may...meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual "27 For the next thirty years the Court used the due process clause to invalidate minimum wage laws,... | |
| Sara M. Evans, Barbara J. Nelson, Barbara N. Nelson - Business & Economics - 1991 - 242 pages
...human race. 19 Only two years before, the Court had ruled in Lochner v. New York that "[limits on] the hours in which grown and intelligent men may labor...living, are mere meddlesome interferences with the right of the individual."20 Following Muller v. Oregon, states rapidly passed protective laws, beginning... | |
| Lise Vogel - Political Science - 1993 - 220 pages
...determined that the New York law was not a valid exercise of such powers. Rather, statutes that limit "the hours in which grown and intelligent men may...interferences with the rights of the individual." 17 Conveniently ignoring the reality that workers participate in the labor market with considerably... | |
| Theda Skocpol - Political Science - 1995 - 338 pages
...one to the degree which would authorize the legislature to interfere with the right to labor. . . . Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting...interferences with the rights of the individual." The "Lochner decision," explained labor historian Elizabeth Brandeis, "was of the greatest significance... | |
| Theda Skocpol - Political Science - 1995 - 740 pages
...New York that hours could not be limited for bakers. According to the majority opinion in that case, "Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting...mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual."199 But the Supreme Court took a very different view in its unanimous 19o8 ruling in favor... | |
| Bernard Schwartz - History - 1993 - 480 pages
...which he had condemned in his Budd opinion. "Statutes of the nature of that under review," he declared, "limiting the hours in which grown and intelligent...mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual."3s Unfortunately, "This interference on the part of the legislatures of the several States... | |
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