Is Adkins v. Children's Hospital still good law?

261 U.S. 525 (1923)

✗ Has been overruled

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Adkins (striking a minimum-wage law on freedom-of-contract grounds) was overruled by West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937).

Later authority

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937)overruled

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