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Health-Care Case Is a Good Moment for Judicial Restraint: View
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For about the first third of the 20th century, the U.S. Supreme Court was under the sway of a doctrine called “substantive due process.”
The court routinely invoked this (and the related concept of “freedom of contract”) to overturn laws attempting to regulate business on matters such as working conditions, minimum wages, and health and safety.