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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)

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Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)
Parent Document
Carl v. Children's Hospital, 702 A.2d 159 (1997)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1997-09-23

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*169Obviously, the legislature got busy in the employment field as issues of child labor, industrial safety, minimum wages, and trade unions emerged, although for awhile the Supreme Court used substantive due process to limit what the legislature could do.24 As the twentieth century unfolded, however, various legislative protections for employees began to survive. In the very term when the Supreme Court protected an employer who had discharged an employee for union activity,25 the Court was persuaded by attorney Louis D. Brandéis to uphold the constitutionality of an Oregon law limiting women’s factory work to ten hours a day.26