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Legal Citation: 300 U.S. 379 (1937)

Appellant
West Coast Hotel Company

Appellee
Elsie Parrish

Appellant's Claim
That Parrish was not due back pay to bring her up to the level she would have received under Washington's 1913 minimum wage law.

Chief Lawyers for Appellant
John W. Roberts, E. L. Skeel

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
C. B. Conner, Sam M. Driver

Justices for the Court
Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Charles Evans Hughes (writing for the Court), Owen Josephus Roberts, Harlan Fiske Stone

Justices Dissenting
Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
29 March 1937

Decision
The public interest in setting a minimum wage for women and children is more important than freedom...