Adkins v. Children's Hospital
1923 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923), is a United States Supreme Court opinion that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract, as protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.[1]
Quick Facts Adkins v. Children's Hospital, Argued March 14, 1923 Decided April 9, 1923 ...
Adkins v. Children's Hospital | |
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Argued March 14, 1923 Decided April 9, 1923 | |
Full case name | Adkins, et al., constituting the Minimum Wage Board of the District of Columbia v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia; same v. Willie Lyons |
Citations | 261 U.S. 525 (more) |
Case history | |
Prior | Dismissed, D.C. Supreme Court; reversed and remanded, 284 F. 613 (D.C. Cir. 1922) |
Subsequent | None |
Holding | |
Minimum wage law for women violated the due process right to contract freely. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Sutherland, joined by McKenna, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Butler |
Dissent | Taft, joined by Sanford |
Dissent | Holmes |
Brandeis took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amends. V, XIX; Minimum Wage Law of the District of Columbia, 40 Stat. 960 (1918) | |
Overruled by | |
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937). |
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Adkins was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish.[2]