Law Faculty

Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229; 104 S. Ct. 2321; 81 L. Ed. 2d 186 (1984) Facts—In Hawaii 40 percent of the land was owned by state and national governments, and seventy-two private landowners held title to 47…

Village of Euclid, Ohio, v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365; 47 S. Ct. 114; 71 L. Ed. 303 (1926) Facts—Appellee owned land within Euclid, Ohio. The village of Euclid passed a zoning law restricting the use of land to…

State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Company v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 123 S. Ct. 1513; 155 L. Ed. 2d 585 Facts—Curtis Campbell was driving in Cache County, Utah, when Curtis decided to pass six vans. Todd Ospital, approaching from the…

BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559; 116 S. Ct. 1589; 134 L. Ed. 2d 809 (1996) Facts—Nine months after purchasing a new BMW car for just over $40,000, Dr. Ira Gore Jr. discovered that the car…

Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co., 336 U.S. 490; 69 S. Ct. 684; 93 L. Ed. 834 (1949) Facts—The ice peddlers union of Kansas City, Missouri, sought to unionize all ice vendors in the city through an agreement with…

Lincoln Federal Labor Union No. 19129, American Federation of Labor, et al., v. Northwestern Iron and Metal Co., et al., 335 U.S. 525; 69 S. Ct. 251; 93 L. Ed. 212 (1949) Facts—North Carolina made it unlawful for an employer…

Morehead v. New York ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587; 56 S. Ct. 918; 80 L.Ed. 1347 (1936) Facts—Tipaldo was sent to jail upon the charge that, as manager of a laundry, he failed to obey the mandatory order of…

Nebbia v. New York, 291 U.S. 502; 54 S. Ct. 505; 78 L. Ed. 940 (1934) Facts—Nebbia, the proprietor of a grocery store in Rochester, New York, was convicted of violating an order of the New York Milk Control Board…

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 261 U.S. 525; 43 S. Ct. 394; 67 L. Ed. 785 (1923) Facts—The Minimum Wage Act of 1918 provided for the creation in the District of Columbia of a Minimum Wage Board. The board was authorized…

Bunting v. Oregon, 243 U.S. 426; 37 S. Ct. 435; 61 L. Ed. 830 (1917) Facts—A statute of Oregon required that any person employed in a mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment should not work more than ten hours a day,…

Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412; 28 S. Ct. 324; 52 L. Ed. 551 (1908) Facts—An Oregon statute made illegal the employment of women in any mechanical establishment, factory, or laundry for more than ten hours during the day. Muller…

Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45; 25 S. Ct. 539; 49 L. Ed. 937 (1905) Facts—A New York statute forbade any employee in a bakery of confectionery establishment to be permitted to work over sixty hours in any one…

Holden v. Hardy, 169 U.S. 366; 18 S. Ct. 383; 42 L. Ed. 780 (1898) Facts—Utah enacted an eight-hour day for workmen in underground mines, smelters, and similar places for the reduction of ore and metals, except in the event…

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 U.S. 394; 6 S. Ct. 1132; 30 L. Ed. 118 (1886) Facts—California brought action against the Southern Pacific and other railroad companies for taxes and interest on taxes assessed on their…

Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113; 24 L. Ed. 77 (1877) Facts—Ira Y. Munn, et al., were grain warehousemen in Chicago, Illinois, and were sued by Illinois for transacting business without a state license in violation of a state statute…

Slaughterhouse Cases, 16 Wallace (83 U.S.) 36; 21 L. Ed. 394 (1873) Facts—These cases arose under a measure that the Louisiana legislature enacted in 1869. The act, motivated by genuine health concerns and by political corruption, regulated the business of…

United States Trust Co. v. New Jersey, 431 U.S. 1; 97 S. Ct. 1505; 52 L. Ed. 2d 92 (1977) Facts—New York and New Jersey entered into a covenant in 1962 agreeing that so long as bonds remained unpaid and…