Summary: <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong></strong></span>IJ attorneys Clark Neily and Robert McNamara discuss one of the Supreme Court's most misunderstood—and mischaracterized—cases, <em>Lochner v. New York</em> (1905), in which the Court struck down a state law limiting the number of hours bakers could work. Neily and McNamara argue that it is much easier to caricature the Lochner decision than to criticize it persuasively. Neily and McNamara also explain how the majority's decision is more faithful to the text, history, and purpose of the Constitution than the dissents, particularly Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's full-throated embrace of judicial abdication and statism.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Guests: IJ Attorneys <a href="http://www.ij.org/about/607">Clark Neily</a> and <a href="http://www.ij.org/about/2457">Robert McNamara</a><br>Host: Shira Rawlinson<br>Length: 36:18<br>Date: May 2011</p>
