West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish Essays

  • West Coast Hotel Co. V. Parrish Case

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    problems related to women’s health. Elis Parrish who was a maid at a hotel had claimed that the hotel had not paid her the law’s minimum wage. West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish was a Supreme Court case that was judged in 1937. The Supreme Court was trying to make a decision on the legitimacy of the minimum wage legislation that was enacted by the State of Washington. This legislation by the State of Washington overturned an earlier decision on the court case of Adkins v. Children's Hospital that was judged

  • Muller vs. Oregon

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    laws or brought them before the court claiming that the restraint on the number of hours was unconstitutional and the fourteenth amendment was used against the law. Although similar laws had been defeated by the Supreme Court's ruling before Muller v. Oregon, that does not mean that they were previously unconstitutional and did not violate the fourteenth amendment for women's freedom. The time of the Industrial Revolution allowed little room for smaller companies to make a name because the big businesses

  • The Case of Chan Chin Ming & Anor versus Lim Yok Eng

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    For this case review, among the cases that has been chosen by us is the case of Chan Chin Ming & Anor v Lim Yok Eng [1994] 3 MLJ 233. The reasons we choose the said case is because in this case alone, we can applied it to many legal issues pertaining to dependency claim. This case basically is related to section 7 of the Civil Law Act 1956. It is a High Court case that later been appeal by defendant to the Supreme Court and was handled by three judges. They are Peh Swee Chin, Edgar Joseph Jr and

  • Freedom of Contract Theory

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    cases in Lochner v. New York, 48 US 45 (1905), in which the SC decided that laws trying to regulate labours and their working hours were unnecessary, unreasonable and prevented a person from entering into valid contracts. Thanuja Rodrigo, ‘Theoretical justifications for restraining “unconscionable” demands under on-demand guarantees’2012) 40 ABLR 5 accessed on 3rd February 2014 Id. J. Beatson, Anson’s Law of Contract, (28th edn, Oxford, 2008) 4 George Mitchell (Chesterhall) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds

  • The New Deal and American Federalism

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    Federalism may be described as a system of government that features a separation of powers and functions between the state and national governments. This system has been used since the very founding of the United States. The constitution defines a system of dual federalism, which ensures sovereignty of the state and national governments. This is put in place in order to limit the national government’s power. However, the Great Depression of 1929 greatly weakened the nation’s economic systems. President