McLean v. Arkansas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO .THE .SUPREME COURT OP THE SjTATE OP ARKANSAS. The facts, which involved the constitutionality of the Arkansas coal miners' wages act, are stated in the ODinion. The act violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution by restricting the right to contract, by taking property without due process of law, by unlawful discrimination and by denying to certain operators and workers in coal mines the fight of civil liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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ERROR TO .THE .SUPREME COURT OP THE SjTATE OP ARKANSAS. The facts, which involved the constitutionality of the Arkansas coal miners' wages act, are stated in the ODinion. The act violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution by restricting the right to contract, by taking property without due process of law, by unlawful discrimination and by denying to certain operators and workers in coal mines the fight of civil liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Such a statute acts as a restriction upon the liberty both of employer and employed; Ritchie v. People, 155 Illinois, 88; In re Morgan,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
This proceeding is brought to review the judgment of the Supreme Court of Arkansas (81 Arkansas, 304), affirming a conviction of the plaintiff in error for violation of a statute of the State of Arkansas, entitled “An act to provide for the. weighing of coal mined in the State of Arkansas as it comes from the mine and before it is passed over a screen of any kind.” The act provides:
“Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any mine owner, lessee, of operator of coal mines in this State, where ten or more men are employed underground, employing miners at bushel or ton rates, or other quantity, to pass…
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