Adkins v. Children's Hospital

Adkins v. Children's Hospital
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 14, 1923
Decided April 9, 1923
Full case nameAdkins, et al., constituting the Minimum Wage Board of the District of Columbia v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia; same v. Willie Lyons
Citations261 U.S. 525 (more)
43 S. Ct. 394; 67 L. Ed. 785; 1923 U.S. LEXIS 2588; 24 A.L.R. 1238
Case history
PriorDismissed, D.C. Supreme Court; reversed and remanded, 284 F. 613 (D.C. Cir. 1922)
SubsequentNone
Holding
Minimum wage law for women violated the due process right to contract freely.
Court membership
Chief Justice
William H. Taft
Associate Justices
Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr.
Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds
Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland
Pierce Butler · Edward T. Sanford
Case opinions
MajoritySutherland, joined by McKenna, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Butler
DissentTaft, joined by Sanford
DissentHolmes
Brandeis took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. V, XIX; Minimum Wage Law of the District of Columbia, 40 Stat. 960 (1918)
Overruled by
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).

Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923), is a United States Supreme Court opinion that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract, as protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.[1]

Adkins was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish.[2]

  1. ^ Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923). Public domain This article incorporates public domain material from this U.S government document.
  2. ^ West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).