9 minutes ago - PDF READ Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial (Landmark Law Cases & American Society) | Lochner v New York (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reformminded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in Supreme Court history In this concise and readable guide, Paul Kens shows us why the case remains such an important marker in the ideological battles between the free market and the regulatory stateThe Supreme Court's decision declared unconstitutional a New York State law limiting bakery workers to no more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week By evoking itspolice power,the state hoped to eliminate the employers' abuse of these workers But the 54 majority opinion, authored by Justice Rufus Peckham and renounced by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, cited the state's violation of due process and theright of contract between employers and employees,which the majority believed was protected by the Fourteenth AmendmentCritics jumped on the decision as an example of conservative judicial activism promoting