The Supreme Court reversed the New York courts' affirmance of Joseph Lochner's conviction under section 110 of the New York labor law, which barred employing any person in a biscuit, bread or cake bakery or confectionery establishment more than sixty hours in a week or ten hours in a day.
Supreme Court of the United States, 1905
Published opinions from 1905. The case name opens the case page.
1905 opinions
The Court held that the 1897 federal statute prohibiting the sale of liquor to Indians does not apply to an Indian who, having received an allotment and patent under the 1887 Act, is a citizen of the United States and of the State of Kansas and therefore subject to state law.
The Supreme Court affirmed Jacobson's conviction for refusing vaccination during a smallpox outbreak in Cambridge, Massachusetts, holding that the state's compulsory vaccination statute was a valid exercise of the police power.