Legal News for Thursday 4/17 - Google UK Lawsuit, AP v. Trump WH Press Fight, CA Rejects Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Request
This Day in Legal History: Lochner
On April 17, 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Lochner v. New York, a landmark case in American constitutional law that struck down a New York law limiting bakery workers to a 60-hour workweek and 10-hour workday. The Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the law violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by interfering with the freedom of contract between employers and employees. Justice Rufus Peckham, writing for the majority, held that the state had overreached its police powers because the law did not have a sufficient connection to health or…
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