Elsie Parrish

West Coast Hotel v. Parrish - "Switch in Time" Supreme Court Upholds State Minimum Wage Law

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On March 29, 1937, the Supreme Court rules 5-4 in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish to uphold Washington State’s minimum wage law for women, explicitly overruling its 1923 Adkins v. Children’s Hospital precedent and marking the beginning of the “Constitutional Revolution of …

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