Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld an Oregon law limiting women’s workdays to ten hours in Muller v. Oregon, creating a narrow exception to the anti-labor Lochner doctrine. Attorney Louis Brandeis filed a revolutionary 113-page brief containing only two pages of legal argument and over 100 …
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