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 ** ''West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish'', (1937) upheld a minimum wage law, and thus allowed for state restrictions on private contract
-=== White (Edward Douglass) ===
+=== White, Taft & Hughes & Vinson Courts ===
+* Edward Douglass White,
+* William Howard Taft
+* Charles Evans Hughes
+* Vinso
-=== Taft (William Howard) ===
+=== Warren Court ===
+* Chief Justice Earl Warren,
-=== Hughes (Charles Evans) ===
+=== Burger Court ===
-=== Vinson ===
+=== Rehnquist Court ===
-=== Warren (Earl) ===
+=== Roberts Court ===
-=== Burger ===
-=== Rehnquist ===
-=== Roberts ===
 == Fourteenth Amendment "Incorporation Cases" ==
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 === equal protection ===
 * = the laws shall be applied or enforced upon all people equally
 ** i.e. without undue burdens (going hard on) or leniencies (going easy on) different classes of people (race, religion, location, etc.)
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 *** Judge Harlan's lone dissent affirmed strict Equal Protection by stating that the Constitution "is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens"
 ** Brown v. Board of Education (1954) applied the Equal Protection clause to eliminate racial segregation in public schools
+* for list of cases decided under the Equal Protection Clause, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_14th_amendment_cases List of 14th Amendment cases (wikipedia)]
 === 14th Amendment incorporation cases ===