Word: lochner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sutherland appears to have argued in syllogisms, and to have expressed himself in a way which is not calculated to convince those in whose interest the law was passed that he had in mind what questions were involved. The opinion suggests too strongly that in the famous case of Lochner against New York, decided in 1905, in which the Court held that a law prohibiting more than a 60-hour week in a bakery was unconstitutional...