Miller v. Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Women’s Eight Hour Labor Law of California, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Women’s Eight Hour Labor Law of California, are stated in the opinion. The restrictions imposed by the Act upon women and their employers as to their freedom of contract in certain designated employments are not reasonably necessary, and are not such a necessary invasion of freedom of contract as will be justified under the sanction of the police power or of any other constitutional power. The legislation is not necessary to safeguard the health of any…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
The plaintiff in error, the proprietor of the Glenwood Hotel in the City of Riverside, 'California, was arrested upon the charge of employing and requiring a woman to work in the hotel for the period of nine hours in a day, contrary to the statute of California which forbade such employment for more than eight hours a day or forty-eight hours a week, Act of March 22, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 437. It was stated in the argument at this bar that the woman was employed as a chambermaid. Urging that the act was in violation of the state constitution/ and also that it was repugnant to the Fourteenth…
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