Lochner v. New York
Significance, A Baker's Lawyer, Due Process And Daniel Webster, A Surprise Verdict
Appellant
Joseph Lochner
Appellee
People of the State of New York
Appellant's Claim
That Lochner had not violated the New York Bakeshop Act because the law was an unreasonable exercise of police power.
Chief Lawyers for Appellant
Frank Harvey Field, Henry Weismann
Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Julius M. Mayer, attorney general of New York
Justices for the Court
David Josiah Brewer, Henry Billings Brown, Melville Weston Fuller, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph McKenna, Rufus Wheeler Peckham (writing for the Court)
Justices Dissenting
William Rufus Day, John Marshall Harlan I, Edward Douglass White
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
17 April 1905
Decision
In protecting the right to contract for labor, the Court overruled New York's Bakeshop Act, which regulated sanitary conditions and the number of hours that employees could work.
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