Bosley v. McLaughlin
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which- involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of the California Women’s Eight Hour Labor Law, are stated in the opinion. The provision of the statute excepting graduate nurses from the operation of the law results in denying equal protection of the laws to all other women working in hospitals.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which- involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of the California Women’s Eight Hour Labor Law, are stated in the opinion. The provision of the statute excepting graduate nurses from the operation of the law results in denying equal protection of the laws to all other women working in hospitals. The fact that a law may be passed in exercise of the police power does not obviate the requirement of equal protection. Equal protection of the laws requires that no impediment…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
This Is a suit to restrain the enforcement of the statute of California prohibiting the employment of women for more than eight hours in any one day or more than forty- eight hours in any one week. The act is the same as that which was under consideration in Miller v. Wilson, ante, p. 373, decided this day, as amended in 1913. By the amendment, the statute was extended to public lodging houses, apartment houses, hospitals, and places of amusement. The proviso was also amended so as to make the statute inapplicable to 'graduate muses in hospitals.’ Stats. (Cal.) 1913, p. 713.
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