Lochner era - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

The time from 1890 to 1937, in which the United States Supreme Court, using a broad�interpretation�of due process that protected economic rights, tended to strike down economic regulations of working conditions, wages or hours in favor of laissez-faire economic policy.� The namesake case is Lochner v. New York, 198 US 45�(1905), in which the court held invalid a New York statute forbidding employment in a bakery for more than 60 hours per week and 10 hours per day because that regulation interfered with the right of contract between the employer and employee. �The Lochner era ended after President Roosevelt, fed up with the Supreme Court invalidating New Deal policies, threatened to "pack" the court with new appointees.