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Jonathan Rees on the Brandeis Brief from Muller v. Oregon
On February 24, 1908, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the case of Muller v. Oregon. That case had begun three years earlier when a supervisor at the Grand Laundry in Portland, Oregon, forced a laundress and labor activist named Emma Gotcher to work overtime. That requirement violated Oregon’s ten-hour [...]
22Feb2009 | mdblogger | 2 comments | Continued