Lochner v. New York

(noun)

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which held that "liberty of contract" was implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case involved a New York law that limited the number of hours that a baker could work each day to 10, and limited the number of hours that a baker could work each week to 60.

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(noun)

A landmark case in which the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a New York state law which limited the number of hours employees could work. The court controversially held that liberty of contract is implicit in the 14th amendment. The case began what is called the "Lochner era," in which the Supreme Court rejected many progressive labor regulations.

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Examples of Lochner v. New York in the following topics:

  • Liberty of Contract

    • In 1905 Lochner v.
    • In 1902 a New York baker named Joseph Lochner was fined for violating a state law limiting the number of hours his employees could work.
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    • Describe the significance of the case of Lochner v.
    • New York for the early 20th-century's understanding of state and federal power

  • Laissez-Faire and the Supreme Court

    • Lochner v.
    • New York (1905), was a landmark U.S.
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    • New York was one of the most controversial decisions in the Supreme Court's history, giving its name to what is known as the "Lochner Era."
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  • Maternalist Reform

    • The idea of a maternal public policy emerged in the United States following the landmark decision made by the Supreme Court of the United States in Muller v.
    • This case upheld the constitutionality of a law that limited the maximum working hours of women, reversing the previous decision made by Lochner v.
    • New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), in which setting maximum working hours for men was held to be unconstitutional.
    • Addams wanted to create a new meaning of motherhood by cultural ideology that championed the emotional and social value of women's attachment to children and family.
    • New York City

  • The New York School

    • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
    • Many artists from all across the U.S. arrived in New York City to seek recognition, and by the end of the decade the list of artists associated with the New York School had greatly increased.
    • It was a historical, ground-breaking exhibition, gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
    • There are also commonalities between the New York School and the members of the beat generation poets active in 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s New York City, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S.
    • Explain what the New York School is known for and who its proponents were

  • References

    • New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, v. 98, p. 5-13.
    • New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, v. 89, p. 25-34.
    • New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, v. 89, p. 3-14.
    • New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, v. 98, p. 75-82.
    • Yorks, L. (2000).

  • Gibbons v. Ogden

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    • Gibbons v.
    • The decision overturned the New York state legislature's monopoly over certain steamships operating between New York and New Jersey.
    • Aaron Ogden filed a complaint in the Court of Chancery of New York asking the court to restrain Thomas Gibbons from operating on the waters of Ogden's route between Elizabethtown, New Jersey and New York City.
    • The Court of Chancery of New York and the Court of Errors of New York ruled in favor of Ogden, and issued an injunction restricting Gibbons from operating Ogden's boats.

  • Norris–La Guardia Act

    • Section 13A of the Norris-La Guardia Act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in New Negro Alliance v.
    • La Guardia of New York, both Republicans.
    • Section 13A of the act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in New Negro Alliance v.
    • LaGuardia was a Republican who appealed across party lines, was very popular in New York during the 1930s.
    • La Guardia revitalized New York City and restored public faith in City Hall.

  • The Election of 1888

    • The 1888 election for President of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S.
    • Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest, losing only Connecticut and New Jersey, but carried the swing states of New York and Indiana to achieve a majority of the electoral vote.
    • Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state.
    • The first, that of 1824, saw John Quincy Adams elected by the House, the second occurred just 12 years earlier in 1876, while the fourth would occur 112 years later in the year 2000 when Bush v.

  • The Transformation of Law

    • In 1803, the Marshall Court struck down an act of Congress in Marbury v.
    • In the same year, Dartmouth College v.
    • Another important case over which Marshall presided was Gibbons v.
    • Ogden in 1824, in which Marshall overturned a monopoly granted by the New York state legislature to steamships operating between New York and New Jersey.
    • The text of the McCulloch v.

  • References

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    • Chaos: The making of a new science.
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    • Salmon, V. (1999).
    • Connectivism: a new learning theory?.