...possible existence of some small amount of unhealthiness to warrant legislative interference with liberty Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting...meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual (Lochnerv. New York, 1905:57-61). A dissenting Justice Holmes described the case as being "decided...

...employers and employees, to make contracts regarding labor upon such terms as they may think best . . . limiting the hours in which grown and intelligent men may labor to earn their living," stated the Court, is a "mere meddlesome [interference] with the rights of the individual" and an unconstitutional...

...terms as they may think best, or which they may agree upon with the other parties to such contracts. Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting...meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual . . ." (p. 61). The vigorous dissenting opinions of Harlan, White, Day, and Holmes, JJ., are familiar....

...possible existence of some small amount of unhealthiness to warrant legislative interference with liberty Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting...hours in which grown and intelligent men may labor to cam their living, are mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual (Lochnerv. New...

...terms as they may think best, or which they may agree upon with the other parties to such contracts. Statutes of the nature of that under review limiting the hours in which grown and intelligent men may earn their living, are mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual, and they are...

...public health in the bakers' contracting to work more than ten hours. Peckham concluded that statutes "limiting the hours in which grown and intelligent...meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individuaL" He meant men literally; women needed protection, but the state did not have the power to act as pater...

...that he practice a trade in order to cure himself, but this fact does not warrant state intervention. "Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting...mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual."19 The law was declared unconstitutional. 17. Lochner v People of State of New York, 198...

...legislative control of hours in industry. This was so unthinkable for Peckham that it clinched his argument. "Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting...interferences with the rights of the individual." Unless the Court called a halt, he asserted, we would all be "at the mercy of legislative majorities."...

...whether the baker works but ten hours per day or only sixty hours a week. . . . Statutes of the nature under review, limiting the hours in which grown and...are mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of individuals" (Lochner v. New York 1905, 45). In short, the Lochner majority concluded that the New...

...stipulating a maximum 60-hour week, 10-hour day, for bakers. Laws like these, said the Supreme Court in 1905, "limiting the hours in which grown and intelligent...mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual."12 The cases were not entirely uniform, but even a decision like Muller v. Oregon in 1908,...