Champion v. Ames Despite their opposition to many state measures regulating business, the justices, with a few significant exceptions, proved remarkably receptive to reading broad authority into the . . .
Lochner v. New York New York State passed a law limiting the number of hours a week bakery employees could work. The state reasoned that excessively long hours led to illness, which posed a danger to . . .
Northern Securities Co. v. United States The James J. Hill-J.P. Morgan group owned the Northern Pacific and Great Northern lines and had just bought the Burlington line to secure a terminal in Chicag . . .
Plessy v. Ferguson Louisiana enacted a statute in 1890 that required railroads to provide “equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races” and barred individuals from o . . .
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. I Also known as the Income Tax Cases . . .
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. II Also known as the Income Tax Cases . . .
United States v. E.C. Knight Co. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which remains the basis for nearly all federal antitrust prosecutions to this day, outlawed every “contract, combination in t . . .