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Legal Citation: 259 U.S. 20 (1922)

Appellant
J. W. Bailey, individually and as Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of North Carolina

Appellee
Drexel Furniture Company

Appellant's Claim
That the use of the taxing power of by federal government to regulate child labor does not violate a state's control of its internal affairs.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
James M. Beck, U.S. Solicitor General

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
William P. Bynum

Justices for the Court
Louis D. Brandeis, William Rufus Day, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph McKenna, James Clark McReynolds, Mahlon Pitney, William Howard Taft (writing for the Court), Willis Van Devanter

Justices Dissenting
John Hessin Clarke

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
15 May 1922

Decision
Reasoning that...