jan 4, 1908 - Muller v. Oregon

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- Est. a law that limited women to ten ours of work in factories and laundries
- Muller, a laundry owner, challenged the legality of the law, arguing that it violated the "liberty to contract"
- Louis Brandeis, one of the attorneys arguing the case, used extensive sociological evidence in his breif, which served as a model for later social reformers
- SCOTUS held the law was constitutional
- Led to the Lawrence Strike