...Lochner v. New York, the Court declared unconstitutional a New York statute prohibiting bakers from working more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week. Writing for a five-man majority, Justice Peckham opined that there was no valid public purpose served...

...Seldom enforced, these measures forbade children, usually defined as persons ages ten to fourteen, from working more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week. None regulated agricultural labor, which occupied the vast majority of nineteenth-century Americans...

...of Lochner v. New York. The New York state legislature enacted a statute that prohibited bakers from working more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week. The lawmakers were concerned about two public health issues. First, bakers often became sick from inhaling...

...(1905) that struck down a New York criminal statute that forbade certain types of bakery employees from working more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week. The decision is widely reviled because it is said to strip the state of power to protect helpless individual...