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Legal Citation: 247 U.S. 251 (1918)

Appellant
W. C. Hammer, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina

Appellee
Roland Dagenhart

Appellant's Claim
That Roland Dagenhart, by allowing his two teenaged sons to work in a North Carolina cotton mill, was in violation of the Keating-Owen Act, which limited child labor.

Chief Lawyers for Appellant
John William Davis, U.S. Solicitor General; Roscoe Pound, Dean of Harvard Law School

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Junius Parker

Justices for the Court
William Rufus Day (writing for the Court), Joseph McKenna, Mahlon Pitney, Willis Van Devanter, Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
Louis D. Brandeis, John Hessin Clarke, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Clark McReynolds

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
3 June 1918