think-progress:Justice Ginsburg’s Warning To The American WorkerLochner v. New York is one of the Su
think-progress:Justice Ginsburg’s Warning To The American WorkerLochner v. New York is one of the Supreme Court’s great anti-precedents. Typically taught in law schools as an example of how judges should not behave, Lochner rested on a fabricated “right to contract” that, in effect, gave employers broad license to exploit their workers. The so-called right invented in Lochner and similar cases later formed the basis for decisions striking down the minimum wage and laws protecting workers’ right to organize. -- source link