The Supreme Court, however, did not extend this principle to minimum wage laws. The court ruled in Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923) that the District of Columbia's minimum wage law was unconstitutional, because the law interfered with the ability of employers to freely negotiate wage contracts with employees.
The Supreme Court did not adopt this principle for minimum wage regulations, instead rendering a decision in Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923) that the District of Columbia's minimum wage law was unconstitutional due to its impact on employer-employee contract flexibility.