Landmark cases, cspans special series produced with the constitution center, explore and the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, Petitioner Versus arizona. Number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our famous decisions were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate are very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Welcome to landmark cases. Our series of looking at the 12 most important cases in Supreme Courts history. We will learn more about the people in the issues behind them. Tonight, lochner v. New york, 1905. It is one of the controversial cases of the Supreme Court, and in fact the story of a baker from new york whose case gave rise to an era that defined Supreme Court cases for the next 30 years. Let me introduce you to our two guests who would tell us more about this important case
And sewer pipes overhead and there were suers in the ground and sometimes were wood, rats ran freely and so did roaches. Bakers worked exceedingly long hours and exceedingly difficult work. It wasnt as difficult as a lot of work during that time, its true, but the title of my first chapter, by the way is not my grandma used to bake. They were handling 100 to 200 pounds of sacks of flour and its hard work and it was dirty and filthy and difficult work for long hours. But it wasnt just that it was difficult conditions for the bakers. There was also the Public Health was endangered by the conditions that these people were working in because the bread wasnt very sanitary. What was also happening in the country that people were beginning to look with Public Health and public safety. Well, i think this is a really good time after that clip to talk about the bake shop act and what the legislature of new york did to address the conditions that you so there were so well described in the video.
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Greg all right thank you thank you, thank you. Thank you, sir. So happy, february 29th. Its a date that only happens once every four years. He reminds me to change my sheets [laughter] its often said that life is like a crap sandwich. The more bread you have, the less crap youve got to eat. But in Gavin Gavin Newsom california, they mean it literally. They mandated a higher minimum wage for Fast Food Restaurants, raising it from 16 to 20 an hour. But it offers an Odd Exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item. Why . What difference does that make . Why shouldnt a restaurant bakery be subject to the same laws as Everybody Else . Is the bakers union that powerful . If you cross them, lee lined up with the pillsbury dough boys head in your bed . No one will say. But according to a new Bloomberg News report, newsome pushed for the Bread Exemption to help a long Time Campaign donor, billionaire greg flynn, who happens to own a bunch of panera breads. I know you kn
Greg all right thank you thank you, thank you. Thank you, sir. So happy, february 29th. Its a date that only happens once every four years. He reminds me to change my sheets [laughter] its often said that life is like a crap sandwich. The more bread you have, the less crap youve got to eat. But in Gavin Gavin Newsom california, they mean it literally. They mandated a higher minimum wage for Fast Food Restaurants, raising it from 16 to 20 an hour. But it offers an Odd Exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item. Why . What difference does that make . Why shouldnt a restaurant bakery be subject to the same laws as Everybody Else . Is the bakers union that powerful . If you cross them, lee lined up with the pillsbury dough boys head in your bed . No one will say. But according to a new Bloomberg News report, newsome pushed for the Bread Exemption to help a long Time Campaign donor, billionaire greg flynn, who happens to own a bunch of panera breads. I know you kn