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The Bakeshop Case

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Reformers have been trying to start a movement for worker protection. They are trying to regulate hours and help health regulations for men, women, and children. It has been a hard process in which they have worked years to achieve. In order to achieve these laws, reformers must bring to light the health and safety issues that are in the work place. The Bakeshop case is 1905, Joseph Lochner was an owner of a bakery in New York. New York had passed a law in 1895, prohibited all bakeries in New York from working more than 10 hours and day, and 60 hours a week. Lochner believed that this goes against his constitutional rights. Again, this court case brings forward the fourteenth amendment. Lochner believed that he should be allowed to work more …show more content…

Lochner filed the case against New York. New York stated that cooking at a bakery causes all of health issues, and that the law was protecting his health. The Court ruled 5-4, because they found it did restrict the owners individual business, and they didn’t have a reliable reason to pass the law. People believed that the State of New York didn’t make the law for health and safety; it was a labor law. Reformers such as Justice John Marshall Harlan, attacked the majority decision. He provided legitimate health evidence to provide reasonableness to the law. This Court case was a disaster for reformers. Then immediately following Lochner v New York, another court case took place: people v Williams. Muller v Oregon was the key case that the reformers were waiting for. The Muller vs. Oregon case took place in January 1908. The major issue of the court case was from an Oregon law that passed in 1903 that set a maximum of ten hour work days for women who were employed in factories and

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