Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. v. Riggs
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Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. v. Riggs, 203 U.S. 243 (1906) was an important United States Supreme Court case dealing with corporations conducting business.
The Court still ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment was not a bar to many state laws that effectively limited a corporation's right to contract business as it pleases. Northwestern National's arguements were based on the fact that it was, as a corporation, an artificial "person" and hence subject to the protections afforded "persons" under that amendment, an argument which had been and was later used successfully to declare child labor and minimum wage laws unconstitutional.
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- Full text of the decision courtesy of Findlaw.com (http://laws.findlaw.com/us/203/243.html)