CRM/LAW C122- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

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You do have rights but are they meaningful (will there be retribution) Lochner v. new york: about the liberty of contract that employees have, you as a worker have the choice of what kinds of labor conditions you will accept. Lochner concludes that the person with life liberty and property: unenumerated (to contract or abort) comes from interpreting this phrase. Unenumerated fundamental rights and liberties: adkins v chidlrens hospital, struck down a minimum wage statute for women, under same reasoning as lochner, formalized very narrow expectations for when regulating the liberty of contract. Other fund rights recognized alongside lochnerian logic: marriage, raising kids, expression, griswold v. connecticut- invalidating a statute prohibiting use of contraceptives by married couples. Agai(cid:374)st (cid:272)apitalist s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) to sa(cid:455) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e freedo(cid:373) of (cid:272)o(cid:374)tra(cid:272)t: overturning lochner would overturn the essential belief of society. Liberal critique- perspective thinks that due process (cid:272)lause that does(cid:374)"t (cid:374)a(cid:373)e a(cid:374)(cid:455) rights individuals (supreme court should create rights.