ferguson
skrupa
argued
march
decided
april
kansas
statute
making
misdemeanor
person
engage
business
debt
adjusting
except
incident
lawful
practice
law
violate
due
process
clause
fourteenth
amendment
since
power
legislate
consider
injurious
practices
internal
commercial
business
affairs
long
laws
conflict
specific
federal
constitutional
prohibition
valid
federal
law
pp
statute
exception
lawyers
denial
equal
protection
laws
nonlawyers
pp
supp
reversed
william
ferguson
attorney
general
kansas
argued
cause
filed
brief
appellants
keith
sanborn
john
eberhardt
filed
brief
appellant
sanborn
lawrence
weigand
argued
cause
appellee
brief
donald
bell
wilkie
bushby
joseph
schreiber
filed
brief
national
better
business
bureau
amicus
curiae
urging
reversal
justice
black
delivered
opinion
case
properly
appeal
asked
review
judgment
district
enjoining
violation
due
process
clause
fourteenth
amendment
kansas
statute
making
misdemeanor
person
engage
business
debt
adjusting
except
incident
lawful
practice
law
state
statute
defines
debt
adjusting
making
contract
express
implied
particular
debtor
whereby
debtor
agrees
pay
certain
amount
money
periodically
person
engaged
debt
adjusting
business
shall
consideration
distribute
among
certain
specified
creditors
accordance
plan
agreed
upon
complaint
filed
appellee
skrupa
business
credit
advisors
alleged
skrupa
engaged
business
debt
adjusting
defined
statute
business
useful
desirable
one
business
activities
inherently
immoral
dangerous
way
contrary
public
welfare
therefore
business
absolutely
prohibited
kansas
heard
evidence
skrupa
tending
show
usefulness
desirability
business
evidence
state
officials
tending
show
debt
adjusting
lends
grave
abuses
distressed
debtors
particularly
lower
income
brackets
abuses
gravity
number
strictly
regulated
debt
adjusting
prohibited
altogether
found
skrupa
business
fall
within
act
proscription
concluded
one
judge
dissenting
act
prohibitory
regulatory
even
construed
part
regulatory
unreasonable
regulation
lawful
business
held
amounted
violation
due
process
clause
fourteenth
amendment
accordingly
enjoined
enforcement
statute
case
discussed
support
invalidation
statute
commonwealth
stone
super
superior
pennsylvania
struck
statute
almost
identical
kansas
act
involved
stone
pennsylvania
held
state
regulate
prohibit
legitimate
business
finding
debt
adjusting
called
budget
planning
pennsylvania
statute
public
interest
concluding
see
justification
interference
business
pennsylvania
ruled
state
statute
unconstitutional
pennsylvania
relied
heavily
adams
tanner
held
due
process
clause
forbids
state
prohibit
business
useful
inherently
immoral
dangerous
public
welfare
district
present
case
pennsylvania
stone
adopted
philosophy
adams
tanner
cases
like
province
courts
draw
views
morality
legitimacy
usefulness
particular
business
order
decide
whether
statute
bears
heavily
upon
business
violates
due
process
system
government
created
constitution
legislatures
courts
decide
wisdom
utility
legislation
time
due
process
clause
used
strike
laws
thought
unreasonable
unwise
incompatible
particular
economic
social
philosophy
manner
due
process
clause
used
example
nullify
laws
prescribing
maximum
hours
work
bakeries
lochner
new
york
outlawing
yellow
dog
contracts
coppage
kansas
setting
minimum
wages
women
adkins
children
hospital
fixing
weight
loaves
bread
jay
burns
baking
bryan
intrusion
judiciary
realm
legislative
value
judgments
strongly
objected
time
particularly
justice
holmes
justice
brandeis
dissenting
invalidating
state
statute
regulated
resale
price
theatre
tickets
justice
holmes
said
think
proper
course
recognize
state
legislature
whatever
sees
fit
unless
restrained
express
prohibition
constitution
state
courts
careful
extend
prohibitions
beyond
obvious
meaning
reading
conceptions
public
policy
particular
may
happen
entertain
doctrine
prevailed
lochner
coppage
adkins
burns
like
cases
due
process
authorizes
courts
hold
laws
unconstitutional
believe
legislature
acted
unwisely
long
since
discarded
returned
original
constitutional
proposition
courts
substitute
social
economic
beliefs
judgment
legislative
bodies
elected
pass
laws
stated
unanimous
opinion
concerned
wisdom
need
appropriateness
legislation
legislative
bodies
broad
scope
experiment
economic
problems
sit
subject
state
intolerable
supervision
hostile
basic
principles
government
wholly
beyond
protection
general
clause
fourteenth
amendment
intended
secure
settled
power
legislate
found
injurious
practices
internal
commercial
business
affairs
long
laws
run
afoul
specific
federal
constitutional
prohibition
valid
federal
law
face
abandonment
use
vague
contours
due
process
clause
nullify
laws
majority
believed
economically
unwise
reliance
adams
tanner
mistaken
adherence
adkins
children
hospital
overruled
west
coast
hotel
parrish
philosophy
adams
abandoned
also
almost
years
ago
expressly
pointed
another
opinion
clearly
undermined
adams
conclude
kansas
legislature
free
decide
legislation
needed
deal
business
debt
adjusting
unquestionably
arguments
showing
business
debt
adjusting
social
utility
arguments
properly
addressed
legislature
us
refuse
sit
superlegislature
weigh
wisdom
legislation
emphatically
refuse
go
back
time
courts
used
due
process
clause
strike
state
laws
regulatory
business
industrial
conditions
may
unwise
improvident
harmony
particular
school
thought
able
willing
draw
lines
calling
law
prohibitory
regulatory
whether
legislature
takes
textbook
adam
smith
herbert
spencer
lord
keynes
concern
kansas
debt
adjusting
statute
may
wise
unwise
relief
needed
lies
us
body
constituted
pass
laws
state
kansas
statute
exception
lawyers
denial
equal
protection
laws
nonlawyers
statutes
create
many
classifications
deny
equal
protection
invidious
discrimination
offends
constitution
business
debt
adjusting
gives
rise
relationship
trust
debt
adjuster
situation
insolvency
marshalling
assets
manner
proceeding
bankruptcy
debt
adjuster
client
may
need
advice
legality
various
claims
remedies
existing
state
laws
governing
relationships
provisions
bankruptcy
act
advice
nonlawyer
lawfully
give
state
kansas
wants
limit
debt
adjusting
lawyers
equal
protection
clause
forbid
also
find
merit
contention
fourteenth
amendment
violated
failure
kansas
statute
title
specific
appellee
thinks
kansas
constitution
reversed
footnotes
twelve
outlawed
business
debt
adjusting
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courts
new
jersey
upheld
new
jersey
statute
like
kansas
statute
question
american
budget
furman
super
aff
per
curiam
skrupa
sanborn
supp
tyson
brother
banton
dissenting
opinion
justice
brandeis
joined
dissent
justice
stone
dissented
opinion
joined
justice
holmes
justice
brandeis
justice
sanford
dissented
separately
adkins
children
hospital
dissenting
opinion
chief
justice
taft
joined
justice
sanford
also
dissented
justice
brandeis
took
part
olsen
nebraska
ex
rel
western
reference
bond
upholding
nebraska
statute
limiting
amount
fee
charged
private
employment
agencies
sproles
binford
chief
justice
hughes
unanimous
added
subject
lies
within
police
power
state
debatable
questions
reasonableness
courts
legislature
entitled
form
judgment
action
within
range
discretion
set
aside
compliance
burdensome
lincoln
federal
labor
union
northwestern
iron
metal
justice
holmes
even
went
far
say
subject
compensation
compensation
due
legislature
may
forbid
restrict
business
sufficient
force
public
opinion
behind
tyson
brother
banton
dissenting
opinion
see
adkins
children
hospital
holmes
dissenting
lincoln
federal
labor
union
northwestern
iron
metal
referring
olsen
nebraska
ex
rel
western
reference
bond
ten
years
later
breard
alexandria
commented
infirmity
adams
lighting
missouri
williamson
lee
optical
fourteenth
amendment
enact
herbert
spencer
social
statics
lochner
new
york
holmes
dissenting
see
daniel
family
security
life
ins
secretary
agriculture
central
roig
ref
see
williamson
lee
optical
lindsley
natural
carbonic
gas
massachusetts
virginia
prohibit
debt
pooling
laymen
declaring
constitute
practice
law
mass
laws
ann
code
ann
massachusetts
statute
upheld
home
budget
service
boston
bar
mass