that is joseph lochner. we will hear about his story from his great-grandson. >> joe lochner's probably wasn't the target of the act that was passed, but it was certainly impacted by it. joseph lochner was born in bavaria, germany and 1863. he came to the united states at 24 and ended up in utica, new york and opened up a bakery. they make cakes and cookies and breads and things like that. i have a cousin who talked about how there uncle joe would come to their house every sunday and would bring all kinds of swedes and they talked about how delicious they were. -- sweets and they talked about how delicious they were. some of the old family documents , we came across a contract from 1896 that was a co-agreement between my great-grandfather, joseph lochner, and mr. smither. what it does is i think it is a way to get around the bakeshop act. after joe had been arrested and he took the case to court, every baker in america donated a dollar to the legal defense fund trade my mother -- defense fund. i think it was

bakery owner joseph lochner violated the law and was fined $50. refusing to pay, he took his case to the supreme court. find out why lochner is known as one of the most controversial decisions in supreme court history. randy barnett, a professor of constitutional law and author of the book "restoring the lost constitution" and the political science professor at texas state university paul ken

this site would've been the appellant, joseph lochner's people. respondent being the attorney general sitting here. the lawyer for lochner joseph lochner would have begun right here, facing the bench, and would have begun with words , "may it please the court. i am asking the court to reverse his conviction because my client was denied due process in that the right to enter into a contract to purchase labor and to set whatever working hours he, my client, had with the employee." he would have made that argument right here. the judges would undoubtedly have engaged him in questions, following which the attorney for the state, the attorney general, would have presented the state's viewpoint, and the argument would've been whether the police power of the state can in effect trump the right of someone to purchase labor and the right of someone to contract freely with labor. these were the two considerations that were in the balance. so that is the court that joe lochner faced and lost on appeal. the next was the supreme court. we will learn about that.

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joseph lochner violated the law and was fined $50. refusing to pay, he took his case all the way to the supreme court. is one of thet most controversial decisions in supreme court history. randy barnett at georgetown university law center and author of the book, "restoring the lost constitution." and paul kens. landmark cases, live monday at 9:00 p.m. et. >> all campaign long, c-span takes you on the road to the white house. unfiltered access to the candidates at town hall meetings, news conferences, rallies and speeches. every campaign event we cover is available on our website at c-span.org. >> carly fiorina hosted the town hall meeting in buford, south carolina, or she talked about foreign policy, the economy and investment issues. thank you, so much. it is great to be back here in south carolina. shannon, thank you for that wonderful introduction and thank you children for the pledge of allegiance that you did so well. how many of you watched the benghazi hearings? course, hillary clinton continues not to answer the fundamental qu

joseph lochner violated that law and was fined $50. refusing to pay, he took his case all the way to the supreme court. find out why lochner is known as one of the most controversial decisions in the pre-court history as we explore this case with our guest, randy barnett, professor of constitutional law at georgetown and author of the book "restoring the lost constitution," and paul kent, political science professor at texas state university. monday. cases, live >> next, british prime minister david cameron takes questions from members of the british house of commons. then republican presidential candidate donald trump at a rally in miami. at 11:00 p.m., another chance to see "q&a" with amy chozick. >> on wednesday, members of parliament questioned british prime minister david cameron on domestic issues, including the steel industry, recent tax credit cuts, and security for people with disabilities. this is just over 35 minutes. >> order. questions for the prime minister. alan jones. >> question one. this morning, i had meetings with mi

joseph lochner violated that law and was fined $50. sing to pay, he took his case all the way to the supreme court. find out why lochner is known as one of the most controversial decisions in the pre-court history as we explore this case with our guest, randy barnett, professor of constitutional law at georgetown and author of the book "restoring the lost constitution," and paul kent, political science professor at texas state university. landmark cases, live

bakery owner joseph lochner lochner violated that law and was fined $50. find out why lochner was one of the most controversial decisions of the supreme court history. author of the book restoring the lost constitution, and paul can, author of lochner v new york, regulation on trial. monday at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span3, and c-span radio. >> up next on american history tv, clayton lori discusses espionage and intelligence gathering tactics used during the civil war. how intelligence was used during so few and why they are primary source documents on civil war area intelligence gathering. associatesnian hosted this event. it is a little under two hours. with thea historian central intelligence agency. he joined the u.s. government in at the a staff historian army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. during his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the national reconnaissance office and at the office of director of national intelligence. taught -- dr

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bakery owner joseph lochner violated the law and was fined $50 refusing to pay he took his case all the way to this report. find out why he's known as one of the most controversial decisions the supreme court history and we explore this case with artist randy barnett professor of constitutional law at georgetown university law center and the author of the book restoring the constitution. and paul came to the political science ambassador at texas state university and author of lochner versus new york economic regulation on trial landmark cases live tonight at my eastern on c-span and c-span radio. >>> i am the c-span capital help reduce her and i usually cover the house and senate floor legislation goings-on and then also other key events on capitol hill. as a network we are committed to covering the hearings gavel to gavel with a very high-profile hearing we've covered all the hearings by the select committee on benghazi come in the house of representatives. so this is one of the next in the series we covered. i got there at 7:00 in the morning and the crews were already set up. they pu

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joseph lock in her violated that law and was fined $50. refusing to parkse he took his case all the way to the supreme court. find out why lochner is known as one of the most controversial decisions in supreme court history as we explore this case with our guests. andy barnett and paul ken. -- paul kens. landmark cases, live tonight at 9:00 eastern on c-span, c-span3 nd c-span radio. >> last week the democratic national committee held its annual women's leadership forum here in washington. democratic presidential candidates bernie sanders, hillary clinton and martin o'malley delivered remarks. and during the event former rhode island senator lincoln chafee announced he's dropping out of the race. this is almost two hours. ms. wasserman schultz: good morning and welcome to the national issues conference at the women's leadership forum. an arm of the democratic women's alliance of the d.n.c. [applause] thank you so much. i am thrilled by the dynamism of this year's participants. thank you to democrats all across the nation. looking out into the audience, i see new faces and familiar friends. i want to take a moment to eight knowle