Lochner v. New York · ¶6

It will be observed that, even with regard to that class of labor, the Utah statute provided for cases of emergency wherein the provisions of.the statute would not apply. The statute now before this court has no emergency clause in it, and, if the statute is valid, there are no circumstances and no emergencies under which the slightest violation of the provisions of the act would be innocent. There is nothing in Holden v. Hardy which covers the case now before us. Nor does Atkin v. Kansas, 191 U. S. 207, touch the case at bar. The Atkin case was decided upon the right of the State to control its municipal corporations and to prescribe the conditions upon which it will permit work of a public character to be done for a municipality. Knoxville Iron Co. v. Harbison, 183 U. S. 13, is equally far from an authority for this legislation. The employes in that case were held to be at a…

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