Bunting v. Oregon

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Bunting v. Oregon
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 18, 1916 Reargued January 19, 1917 Decided April 9, 1917
Full case name: Franklin O. Bunting, Plaintiff in Error v. The State of Oregon Citations: 243 U.S. 426; 37 S. Ct. 435; 61 L. Ed. 830; 1917 U.S. LEXIS 2008
Holding
No. The court affirmed the decision of the lower court upholding the state law as constitutional.
Court membership
Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White Associate Justices: Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William R. Day, Willis Van Devanter, Mahlon Pitney, James Clark McReynolds, Louis Brandeis, John Hessin Clarke
Case opinions
Majority by: McKenna Joined by: Holmes, Day, Pitney, Clarke Dissent by: White Dissent by: Van Devanter Dissent by: McReynolds Brandeis took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Muller v. Oregon, 243 U.S. 426 (1908), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a ten-hour law for women, largely based on the sociological data that attorney Louis D. Brandeis presented regarding the adverse effects of long hours on the health and morals of women.

The trials of Bunting v. Oregon, nine years later (in 1917), resulted in acceptance of a ten-hour workday for both men and women, but the state minimum-wage laws weren't changed until twenty years later.

[edit] References

• Shi, David E.; George Brown Tindall (2004). America - A Narrative History, Brief, 6th., Norton. ISBN 0-393-97813-3.