Facts of the case The owner of a laundry business, Curt Muller, was fined $10 when he violated the law. Muller appealed the conviction. The state supreme court upheld the law's constitutionality.
Muller v. OregonOn February 24, 1908, the Supreme Court decided Muller v. Oregon, unanimously upholding an Oregon law setting a 10-hour limit on the workday of women in factories and laundries. The Muller decision was a major victory for rising progressive lawyer Louis D. Brandeis because it upheld protective state regulations.Feb 24, 2022
Oregon's limit on the working hours of women was constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, as it was justified by the strong state interest in protecting women's health. Supreme Court of Oregon affirmed.
Although contemporary Progressive reformers applauded the decision as a victory in the battle for improved working conditions for women, some equal rights feminists recognized that the decision offered protection by reinforcing gender stereotypes, an argument that would ultimately restrict the economic opportunities ...
President Benjamin Harrison(1837-1910): Brewer, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1889-1910), was appointed to the High Court bench by President Benjamin Harrison. He delivered the unanimous opinion in the Muller v. State of Oregon case.
Do you agree with the Supreme Court's decision in Muller? Give reasons for your answer? Yes, Muller broke the law that was in place.
The Brandeis brief was a pioneering legal brief that was the first in United States legal history to rely more on a compilation of scientific information and social science than on legal citations.
After Muller, many states passed wages and hours laws and other statutes regulating the conditions of work. However, in 1923, the Supreme Court ruled this legislation was unconstitutional in Adkins v. Children's Hospital. Then the Great Depression of the 1930s forced the Court to reverse its decision.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Muller v. Oregon. In that historic case, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a 1903 Oregon statute prohibiting employment of women in industrial jobs for more than ten hours per day.Feb 13, 2009
Which of the following is true of the Supreme Court's decision in Muller v. Oregon? In reaching its decision, the Court considered scientific evidence showing the harmful effects of long working hours.
An Oregon state law restricted a women’s working hours to ten per day. After being convicted of requiring a woman to violate the statute, Muller, a laundry business owner, challenged the constitutionality of the statute.
A state is permitted to constitutionally limit a woman’s working hours without limiting a man’s working hours because the state has a strong interest in promoting the health of women – the “weaker sex.”
Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. The posed question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's.
Curt Muller, the owner of a laundry business, was convicted of violating Oregon labor laws by making a female employee work more than ten hours in a single day. Muller was fined $10.
Oregon, unanimously upholding an Oregon law setting a 10-hour limit on the workday of women in factories and laundries. The Muller decision was a major victory for rising progressive lawyer Louis D. Brandeis because it upheld protective state regulations.
Muller came just three years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Lochner v. New York, in which the Court struck down a 10-hour workday for bakers in New York City.
Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. The posed question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's. The law did not recognize sex-based discrimination in 1908; it was unrecognized until the case of Reed v. Reedin 1971; here, the test was not under the equal protections clause, but a tes…
Curt Muller, the owner of a laundry business, was convicted of violating Oregon labor laws by making a female employee work more than ten hours in a single day. Muller was fined $10. Muller appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court and then to the U.S. Supreme Court, both of which upheld the constitutionality of the labor law and affirmed his conviction.
Louis Brandeis, the young attorney who used social science to argue that women workers neede…
In Justice David Josiah Brewer's unanimous opinion, the Court upheld the Oregon regulation. The Court did not overrule Lochner, but instead distinguished it on the basis of "the difference between the sexes". The child-bearing physiology and social role of women provided a strong state interest in reducing their working hours.
That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disad…
Groups like the National Consumer League (which included Florence Kelley and Josephine Goldmark as feminists) and the state won shorter hours for women. However, many equal-rights feminists opposed the ruling, since it allowed laws based on stereotyped gender roles that restricted women's rights and financial Independence. While it provided protection from long hours to white women, it did not extend to women of color, food processors, agricultural worker…
• Bunting v. Oregon
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 208
• Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905)
• Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923)
• Becker, Mary E. (1986). "From Muller v. Oregon to Fetal Vulnerability Policies". University of Chicago Law Review. 53 (4): 1219–1273. doi:10.2307/1599748. JSTOR 1599748.
• Bernstein, David E. (2011). Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform. Chapter 4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-04353-3
• Works related to Muller v. Oregon at Wikisource
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