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Lochner overturned *state* laws relating to bakeries, not federal minimum wage laws. Minimum Wage laws were struck down in Adkins v Children's Hospital (1923)
The doctrine was later, famously, picked up by the Court in ''Lochner'',
The doctrine was later, famously, picked up by the Court in ''Lochner'',
a decision which held that federal minimum wage laws intruded too far
a decision which held that a New York State law regulating the hours and working conditions of bakery employees intruded too far
into the "fundamental right" for an employee and an employer to freely
into the "fundamental right" for an employee and an employer to freely
contract. This fundamental right could not be abridged even by fair
contract. This fundamental right could not be abridged even by fair