(1908) case that ruled Oregon's law barring women from working more than ten hours a day was constitutional; also an attempt to define women's unique status as mothers to justify their differential treatment, Case that upheld protective legislation on the grounds of women's supposed physical weakness, (1908) A landmark Supreme Court case in which crusading attorney (and future Supreme Court Justice) Luis D. Brandeis persuaded the Supreme court to accept the constitutionality of limiting the hours of women workers. Coming on the heels of Lochner v. New York, it established a different standard for male and female workers., In 1908, Louis Brandeis persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers by presenting evidence of the harmful effects of factory labor on women's weaker bodies. This was a landmark Supreme Court decision because it relates to both sex discrimination and labor laws. The case upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health, a 10-hour work day from women laundry workers on health and community concerns.