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CHANDLER v. WISE

No. 14.

307 U.S. 474 (1939)

59 S.Ct. 992

83 L.Ed. 1407

CHANDLER, GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY, ET AL. v. WISE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 5, 1939.

Reargued April 18, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.W. Jones, Assistant Attorney General of Kentucky, on the reargument and on the original argument, for petitioners.

Mr. Lafon Allen on the original argument, and with Mr. Oldham Clarke on the reargument, for respondents.

By special leave of Court, Solicitor General Jackson, with whom Mr. Paul A. Freund was on the brief, argued the case on behalf of the United States, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

By leave of Court, Messrs. Orland S. Loomis, Attorney General of Wisconsin, Mortimer Levitan and Newell S. Boardman, Assistant Attorneys General, filed a brief on behalf of that State, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Opinion of the Court by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES, announced by MR. JUSTICE STONE.

In January, 1937, the legislature of Kentucky adopted a resolution purporting to ratify the constitutional amendment proposed by the Congress in 1924 and known as the "Child Labor Amendment."1

Respondents, citizens, taxpayers and voters in Kentucky, brought this suit in the state court to restrain the Governor of the Commonwealth and the officers...

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