Coppage v. Kansas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the statute of Kansas of 1909, making it unlawful for employers to coerce, require or influence employés not to join or remain members of labor organizations, are stated, in-the opinion. The statute amounts to deprivation of liberty and property without due process of law, and also- to a denial of due process of law.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the statute of Kansas of 1909, making it unlawful for employers to coerce, require or influence employés not to join or remain members of labor organizations, are stated, in-the opinion. The statute amounts to deprivation of liberty and property without due process of law, and also- to a denial of due process of law. The statute is not a proper exercise of the police power. In support of these contentions see, Adair v. United' States,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
In a local court in one of the counties of Kansas, plaintiff in error was found guilty and adjudged to pay a fine, with imprisonment as the alternative, upon an information charging him with a violation of an act of the legislature of that State, approved March 13, 1903, being Chap. 222 of the session laws of that year, found also as §§ 4674 and 4675, Gen. Stat. Kansas 1909. The act reads as follows:
“An Act to provide a penalty for coercing or influeneing- or making demands upon or requirements of employés, servants, laborers, and persons seeking employment.
“Beit Enacted, etc.:. “Section 1.…
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