feb 24, 1908 - Muller v. Oregon

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Muller v. Oregon, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1908, was a landmark case in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of an Oregon state law that limited women's work hours to ten per day. The decision was significant because it accepted the use of social science data regarding the negative health impacts of long working hours on women, marking a departure from previous interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause and setting a precedent for future labor legislation.

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