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Kansas">Wikipedia article</a>, <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5168663" class="extiw" title="d:Q5168663">Wikidata item</a></li></ul><div class="wst-header-content header_notes_content wst-header-notes-content wst-unknown-notes-content"> <p><i><b>Coppage v. Kansas</b></i>, 236 U.S. 1 (1915), was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a> case that held that employers could make contracts that forbid employees from joining <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union" class="extiw" title="w:Trade union">unions</a>. These types of contracts were called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yellow-dog_contract" class="extiw" title="w:yellow-dog contract">yellow-dog contracts</a>. This case was decided in the era prior to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" class="extiw" title="w:United States">American</a> Great Depression when the Supreme Court invalidated laws that imposed restrictions on contracts, especially those of employment. During this time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/liberty_of_contract" class="extiw" title="w:liberty of contract">liberty of contract</a> was viewed as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fundamental_right" class="extiw" title="w:fundamental right">fundamental right</a>, and therefore, only in extreme circumstances, could this right be abridged. When the fundamental right of freedom of contract was abridged, it violated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/due_process" class="extiw" title="w:due process">due process</a> clause of the <a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fourteenth Amendment</a>. <span class="error deprecated-template-warning" style="display:none;">Warning: template has been deprecated.</span> </p> </div></div><div class="ws-noexport" id="ws-data" style="speak:none"><span id="ws-article-id">853895</span><span id="ws-title">Coppage v. Kansas — Syllabus</span><span id="ws-author">Mahlon Pitney</span></div></div> <div style="box-sizing:border-box; clear:left; float:right; overflow:visible; position:relative;"> <div class="wikitable noprint" id="CaseNavDocs" style="display: table; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 1px; background: rgb(86, 155, 187); color: black; box-sizing: border-box; border-right: 1px solid rgb(86, 155, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(86, 155, 187); margin: 0 auto 0.50em 1.00em; width: auto;"> <div style="display: table-header-group; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); color: black;"> <div style="display: table-row;"> <div class="mw-customtoggle-row02 mw-customtoggle-row03 mw-customtoggle-row04 mw-customtoggle-row05 mw-customtoggle-row06 mw-customtoggle-row07 mw-customtoggle-row08 mw-customtoggle-row09 mw-customtoggle-row10" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="action" id="headerLabel" style="display: inline-block; padding: 0.25em 1.50em 0.25em 1.50em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 900;">Court Documents</span></div> </div> </div> <div style="display: table-row-group; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: black;"> <div class="mw-collapsible" id="mw-customcollapsible-row02" style="display: table-row;"> <div class="caseHeading" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0.25em 1.50em 0.25em 1.50em;"> <div id="heading1"><strong><a href="/wiki/Coppage_v._Kansas/Opinion_of_the_Court" title="Coppage v. 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Kansas">Wikipedia article</a></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="display: table; box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:700; margin:1.5em auto 1.5em auto; max-width:100%;"><p style="text-align:center;">United States Supreme Court</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports/Volume_236" title="United States Reports/Volume 236">236</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> <a href="/wiki/236_U.S._1" class="mw-redirect" title="236 U.S. 1">1</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Coppage</span>  v.  <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Kansas</span></p><p style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; font-weight:normal;"> Argued: October 30, 1914. --- Decided: January 25, 1915</p><div style="display:inline; clear:both;"></div> </div> <div class="courtopinion"> <p>[Syllabus from pages 1-4 intentionally omitted] </p><p>Messrs. R. R. Vermilion and W. F. 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