Adkins v. Children's Hospital
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. Adkins was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).
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Adkins v. Children's Hospital
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. Adkins was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).
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Minimum wage law for women vio ...... .C. Court of Appeals affirmed.
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West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379
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Dismissed, D.C. Supreme Court; reversed and remanded, 284 F. 613
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Adkins, et al., constituting t ...... Columbia; same v. Willie Lyons
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