Adkins v. Children's Hospital, , is a Supreme Court of the United States opinion holding that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract, as protected by the Fifth Amendment.
Adkins was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).
History of labor relations in the United States | Substantive due process cases | 1923 in law | United States Supreme Court cases | United States Fifth Amendment case law | United States Nineteenth Amendment case law
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