Bunting v. Oregon, 243 U.S. 426

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 (1917), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States

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 upheld a ten-hour work day. The trials of Bunting v. Oregon resulted in acceptance of a ten-hour workday for both men and women, but the state minimum-wage laws weren't changed until twenty years later. Future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter

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 along with future Oregon Supreme Court

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 justices George M. Brown

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 and John O. Bailey

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 represented Oregon

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 on the appeal while W. Lair Thompson and former Senator for Oregon Charles W. Fulton represented Bunting.