A conservative, pro-free market court: what happened when America’s activist judges came from the other side of the aisle?
In April 1901, a Bavarian immigrant baker named Joseph Lochner was arrested in Utica, New York. Unlike the larger bakeries, which worked two shifts, Lochner employed a single crew: his bakers arrived in the evening, prepared the dough, slept a few hours on the premises and baked before dawn. Read more
Roger Partridge
7 September, 2026
