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Lochner v. New York

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Lochner v. New York

US Supreme Court decision of 1905 dealing with the use of state police power to regulate working conditions. Lochner, an owner of a bakery convicted of violating a New York law that set maximum working hours for bakery workers, filed suit against the state. The US Supreme Court voted narrowly to overrule the New York law, ruling it an excessive use of state police power that violated the Fourteenth Amendment right to freedom of contract.

Dissenting, Justice Holmes criticized the majority ruling for making its decision because of a belief in laissez-faire economics.
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