- Bunting v. Oregon
Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants=Bunting v. Oregon
ArgueDate=April 18
ArgueYear=1916
ReargueDate=January 19
ReargueYear=1917
DecideDate=April 9
DecideYear=1917
FullName=Franklin O. Bunting, Plaintiff in Error v. The State of Oregon
USVol=243
USPage=426
Citation=37 S. Ct. 435; 61 L. Ed. 830; 1917 U.S. LEXIS 2008
Prior=71 Or. 259 (1914)
Subsequent=
Holding=No. The court affirmed the decision of theOregon Supreme Court upholding the state law as constitutional.
SCOTUS=1916-1921
Majority=McKenna
JoinMajority=Holmes, Day, Pitney, Clarke
Dissent=White
Dissent2=Van Devanter
Dissent3=McReynolds
NotParticipating=Brandeis
LawsApplied="Bunting v. Oregon", 243 U.S. 426 (1917), is a case in which the
Supreme Court of the United States upheld a ten-hour work day.The trials of "Bunting v. Oregon", nine years later (in 1917), resulted in acceptance of a ten-hour workday for both men and women, but the state minimum-wage laws weren't changed until twenty years later.
References
*cite book
last= Shi
first= David E.
coauthors= George Brown Tindall
title= America - A Narrative History, Brief
publisher= Norton
year= 2004 |edition= 6th.
id= ISBN 0-393-97813-3
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