Legal Opinion
United States v. Darby
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 17, 1941No. 82PublishedCited by 1,147 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
The two principal questions raised by the record in this case are, first, whether Congress has constitutional power to prohibit the shipment in interstate commerce of lumber manufactured by employees whose wages are less than a prescribed minimum or whose weekly hours of labor at that wage are greater than a prescribed maximum, and, second, whether it has power to prohibit the employment of workmen in the production of goods “for interstate commerce” at other than prescribed wages and hours. A subsidiary question is whether in connection with such prohibitions Congress can require the…
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