Lochner v. New York · ¶30

Subsequently in Gundling v. Chicago, 177 U. S. 183, 188, this court said: “Regulations respecting the pursuit of a lawful trade or business are of very frequent occurrence,in the various cities of the country, and what such regulations shall be and to what particular trade, business- or occupation they shall apply, are questions for the State to determine, and their determination comes within the proper exercise of the police power by the State, and unless the regulations are so utterly unreasonable and extravagant in their nature and purpose that the property and personal rights of the citizen are unnecessarily, and in a manner wholly arbitrary, interfered with or destroyed without due process of law, they do not extend beyond the power of the State to pass, and they form no subject for Federal interference.

U. S. Reports, bound volume
U. S. Reports, volume 198, at 45 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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