G. Edward White

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West Coast Hotel’s Place in American Constitutional History

Introduction This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish,1 which for many years has been part of one of the central narratives of twentieth-century American constitutional history. In that narrative, West Coast Hotel represents the Supreme Court’s abandonment of a constitutional jurisprudence featuring aggressive scrutiny of legislation that regulated economic activity or redistributed economic benefits....