July 11, 2015

Unlocking Lochner

(Steven Hayward) Don't miss George Will's column today, "The 110-Year-Old Case That Still Inspires Supreme Court Debates." It's about the infamous case of Lochner v. New York from 1906—the decision that struck down a New York state maximum hour law for bakers that elicited one of the most memorable single sentences of dissent in Supreme Court history, Oliver Wendell Holmes rant that "[t]he Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social

Source: Power Line