WEST COAST HOTEL CO. V. PARRISH
300 U.S. 379 (1937)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over a state minimum wage law.
FACTS: The Act authorizes the fixing of minimum wages for women and minors. The appellant
operates a hotel. The appellee, Elsie Parrish, was employed as a chambermaid and (with her
husband) brought this suit to recover the difference between the wages paid her and the
minimum wage fixed pursuant to the state law. The minimum wage was $14.50 per week of 48
hours. The appellant challenged the act as repugnant to the due process clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court of the State, reversing the trial court, sustained
the statute and directed judgment for the plaintiffs. The case is here on appeal. The
appellant relies Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525, which held invalid the
District of Columbia Minimum Wage Act, which was attacked under the due process clause of
the Fifth Amendment.
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