Adkins v. Children's Hospital
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| Adkins v. Children's Hospital | ||||||||
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 Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||
| Argued March 14, 1923 Decided April 9, 1923 | ||||||||
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| Minimum wage law for women violated the due process right to contract freely. D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed. | ||||||||
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| U.S. Const. amend. V, XIX; Minimum Wage Law of the District of Columbia, 40 Stat. 960 (1918) | ||||||||
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| West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937)
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In the case of Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract, as protected by the Fifth Amendment.
Adkins was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).
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External links
- Full text of the decision courtesy of Findlaw.com (http://laws.findlaw.com/us/261/525.html)