West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish

Washington's minimum-wage law for women and minors required hotel employers to pay a set floor wage; Parrish (plaintiff), a hotel maid, sued West Coast Hotel (defendant) for the shortfall between her actual pay and the statutory minimum. West Coast argued the law violated its due-process right to freedom of contract; the Washington trial court agreed, the state supreme court reversed, and West Coast appealed to the United States Supreme Court.

Whether a state may constitutionally regulate the minimum wage paid to female employees.