Adkins v. Children's Hospital

Adkins v. Children's Hospital
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 14, 1923 Decided April 9, 1923
Full case name	Adkins, et al., constituting the Minimum Wage Board of the District of Columbia v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia; same v. Willie Lyons
Citations	261 U.S. 525 (more) 43 S. Ct. 394; 67 L. Ed. 785; 1923 U.S. LEXIS 2588; 24 A.L.R. 1238
Case history
Prior	Dismissed, D.C. Supreme Court; reversed and remanded, 284 F. 613 (D.C. Cir. 1922)
Subsequent	None
Holding
Minimum wage law for women violated the due process right to contract freely.
Court membership
Chief Justice William H. Taft Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Edward T. Sanford
Case opinions
Majority	Sutherland, joined by McKenna, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Butler
Dissent	Taft, joined by Sanford
Dissent	Holmes
Brandeis took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. V, XIX; Minimum Wage Law of the District of Columbia, 40 Stat. 960 (1918)
Overruled by
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).

Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923), is a United States Supreme Court opinion that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract, as protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.^[1]

Adkins was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish.^[2]