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A New Chapter in the History of the New York Minimum Wage Case, 1936

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Subtitle: A Supplement to A Brief History of the New York Minimum Wage Case; October 1936; 2 copies

Dates: 1936

Factual Brief by the Attorney General of New York State to the United States Supreme Court in the New York State Minimum Wage Case

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This case resulted in New York State's 1933 minimum wage law for women and children being declared unconstitutional. Both New York State's Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court found that a state may not regulate the wages of adult women, because to do so would interfere with their freedom to contract, guaranteed to them by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. The case began when Joseph Tipaldo, manager of the...