Simpson v. O'Hara
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Thomas J. Cleeton, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice McBride. This is a suit by Elmira Simpson against Edwin V. O’Hara, Bertha Moores and Amedee M. Smith, constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission of the State of Oregon, the object of which is to have judicially determined the question whether an act passed by the legislature on February 17, 1913 (Sess.
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From Multnomah: Thomas J. Cleeton, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice McBride. This is a suit by Elmira Simpson against Edwin V. O’Hara, Bertha Moores and Amedee M. Smith, constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission of the State of Oregon, the object of which is to have judicially determined the question whether an act passed by the legislature on February 17, 1913 (Sess. Laws 1913, c. 62), and commonly known as the minimum wage act, is inimical to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or to Article I, Section 20, of the Constitution of Oregon. The…
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Mr. Chief Justice McBride.
This suit is similar in substance and is brought for the same purpose as the case of Stettler v. O’Hara, 69 Or. 519 (139 Pac. 743), in which Mr. Justice Eakin, speaking for the court, held the act in question to be a valid exercise of the police power, and not in conflict with either the Constitution of the United States or of this state. It is suggested, however, on this appeal that in the case of Stettler v. O’Hara, before cited, this court did not pass upon the contention raised in the pleadings, and upon the argument, that the minimum wage act is…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stettler v. O'HaraOregon Supreme Court · 1914
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