| Adkins v. Children's Hospital
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Argued March 14, 1923
Decided April 9, 1923
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| Full case name:
| Adkins et al., constituting the Minimum Wage Board of the District of Columbia v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia; same v. Willie Lyons
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| Citations:
| 261 U.S. 525; 43 S. Ct. 394; 67 L. Ed. 785; 1923 U.S. LEXIS 2588; 24 A.L.R. 1238
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| Prior history:
| Dismissed, D.C. Supreme Court; reversed and remanded, 284 F. 613 (D.C. Cir. 1922)
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| Subsequent history:
| none
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| Holding
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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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| Court membership
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| Chief Justice: William Howard Taft
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| Associate Justices: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph McKenna, Willis Van Devanter, James McReynolds, Louis Brandeis, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Edward T. Sanford
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| Case opinions
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| Majority by: Sutherland
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| Joined by: McKenna, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Butler
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| Dissent by: Taft
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| Joined by: Sanford
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| Dissent by: Holmes
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| Brandeis took no part in the case
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| Laws applied
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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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| Overruled by
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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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