y? In past courses, including Lochner v. New York, the business owners had gotten what they wanted and with little trouble because the plaintiffs tended to have evidence that pointed to the law being unconstitutional. Therefore, “The passage of so much state social legislation sent conservatives scurrying to the Supreme Court for redress. Such persons believed that no government had the power to deprive either workers or employers of the right to negotiate any kind of labor contract they wished.” (Garraty, 650) These people who believed that the government could not interfere only became more certain of themselves when cases emerged and then were decided in favor of the owners. The business owners became so certain of themselves because of the United States government business policy of laissez-fair. That was the reasoning of why Muller v. Oregon ended at the Supreme Court and by Brandeis’s report on why women were different than men and needed rules, Oregon was able to win the lawsuit. “That no female shall be employed in any mechanical establishment, or factory, or laundry in this State more than ten hours during any one day. The hours of work may be arranged as to permit the employment of females at any time so that they shall work no more than ten hours during the twenty-four hours of any one day.” (Brewer) The regulations behind the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution are to protect one’s business and sales of labor however is subject to proper restraints under the state. By the evidence thus shown, although federal laws have to be obeyed throughout the United States of America, there are certain areas of law making that are created and regulated at the state level. Brandeis’s report on women being different than men showed the Supreme Court a different side of women and their abilities. Even though this lawsuit was to declare the Oregon Stature unconstitutional, it was the...
