Law Essay on Lochner vs New York

"Error to the County Court of Oneida County, State of New York."
This case deals with the Fourteenth Amendment where the general right to make a contract in relation to a business is protected. This includes the right to purchase and sell labor, except as controlled by the State in the legitimate exercise of its police power. The indictment in this case stated that the defendant, "wrongfully and unlawfully required and permitted an employee working for him in his bakery to work more than sixty hours in one week," after he was already convicted of the same act. Because of his actions the defendant had to pay $50 fine. After all of this many appeals had been filed which in turn the conviction was re-affirmed several times.
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