MARYLAND ET AL.
v.
WIRTZ, SECRETARY OF LABOR, ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 23, 1968.
Decided June 10, 1968.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Alan M. Wilner, Assistant Attorney General of Maryland, and Charles Alan Wright argued the cause for appellants. With Mr. Wilner on the brief for appellant the State of Maryland et al. were the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Francis B. Burch of Maryland, Crawford C. Martin of Texas, MacDonald Gallion of Alabama, Darrell F. Smith of Arizona, Joe Purcell of Arkansas, Duke W. Dunbar of Colorado, David Buckson of Delaware, Earl Faircloth of Florida, Bert T. Kobayashi of Hawaii, William G. Clark of Illinois, Richard C. Turner of Iowa, Robert C. Londerholm of Kansas, James S. Erwin of Maine, Elliot L. Richardson of Massachusetts, Joe T. Patterson of Mississippi, Norman H. Anderson of Missouri, Clarence A. H. Meyer of Nebraska, Arthur J. Sills of New Jersey, Boston E. Witt of New Mexico, T. Wade Bruton of North Carolina, Helgi Johanneson of North Dakota, William B. Saxbe of Ohio, G. T. Blankenship of Oklahoma, Daniel R. McLeod of South Carolina, Frank L. Farrar of South Dakota, James L. Oakes of Vermont, Robert Y. Button of Virginia, and James E. Barrett of Wyoming; and A. J. Carubbi, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General of Texas, Hawthorne Phillips, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, and James V. Noble, Assistant Attorney General of New Mexico. With Mr. Wright on the brief for appellant the State of Texas were Messrs. Martin, Carubbi, and Phillips, and Nola White, First Assistant Attorney General. Cecil A. Morgan filed a brief for appellant Fort Worth Independent School District.
Solicitor General Griswold argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Weisl, Louis F. Claiborne, John S. Martin, Jr., and Morton Hollander.
Briefs of amici curiae, urging affirmance, were filed by J. Albert Woll, Laurence Gold, and Thomas E. Harris for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and by Henry Kaiser and Ronald Rosenberg for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
As originally enacted,1 the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 required every employer to pay each of his employees "engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce"2 a certain minimum hourly wage, and to pay at a higher rate for work in excess of a certain maximum number of hours per week. The Act...
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