 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1956 - 136 pages
...reversal was predicated on a new concept of the State's police powers by the Court which declared that— the protection of women is a legitimate end of the exercise of State power. The Court also adopted the view of Mr. Justice Holmes expounded in his Ad'kins dissent that the District... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1956 - 950 pages
...The reversal was predicated on a new concept of the State's police powers by the Court which declared **the protection of women Is a legitimate end of the exercise of State power. The Court also adopted the views of Mr. Justice Holmes expounded in his Adkins dissent that the District... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - Labor - 1956 - 780 pages
...reversal was predicated on a new concept of the State's police powers by the Court which declared that— the protection of women is a legitimate end of the exercise of State power. The Court also adopted the views of Mr. Justice Holmes expounded in his Adkins dissent that the District... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 - Women - 1971 - 750 pages
...Coast Hotel Co. v. ParrisK (1937). According to Chief Justice Hughes, who delivered the opinion there, "What can be closer to the public interest than the...unscrupulous and overreaching employers?" And, if such protection is a legitimate end of the police power, the requirement of payment of a minimum wage... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1971 - 1276 pages
...Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrtsh (1937). According to Chief Justice Hughes, who delivered the opinion there. "What can be closer to the public interest than the...unscrupulous and overreaching employers?" And, if such protection is a legitimate end of the police power, the requirement of payment of a minimum wage... | |
 | David P. Currie - Law - 1994 - 682 pages
...(1869)). 160300 US 379 (1937) (Hughes), finding the statute an admissible means for promoting both "the health of women and their protection from unscrupulous and overreaching employers" and noting — in evident response to the argument that employers should not be made to bear the burden... | |
 | Peter H. Irons - History - 1993 - 376 pages
...protection of law against the evils which menace the health, safety, morals and welfare of the people. . . . What can be closer to the public interest than the...protection from unscrupulous and overreaching employers?" Citing Roberts' views on due process as stated in Nebbia, Hughes added that Adkins "was a departure... | |
 | Larry D. Barnett - Law - 1993 - 210 pages
...a statute setting a minimum rate of pay for women but not men was upheld. "What," asked the Court, "can be closer to the public interest than the health...their protection from unscrupulous and overreaching employers?"4 Significantly, both the 1923 and 1937 decisions are consistent with trends in the earnings... | |
 | Howard Gillman - Law - 1993 - 336 pages
...considered it a legitimate object of regulation for a state to extend special protections to women. "What can be closer to the public interest than the...it be said that the requirement of the payment of the minimum wage fairly fixed in order to meet the very necessities of existence is not an admissible... | |
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What can be closer to the public interest than the health of women and their protection from unscrupulous and overreaching employers? And if the protection of women is a legitimate end of the exercise of state power, how can it be said that the requirement... 
