Law: A Dangerous Decision

The Supreme Court Has Aroused Resentment In deciding that the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Law is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has subjected itself to criticism on two grounds.

The Court has reiterated the opinion that labor is a commodity, and may be disposed of like any other goods. Such an opinion, however, seems to laymen, and even to lawyers, almost a repudiation of the views expressed in Muller against Oregon, in which it was held that a law regulating the hours of employment of women was valid, and in Bunting against...

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