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.
However, the Supreme Court did not extend this concept to minimum wage regulations, and instead made a decision in Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923) that the District of Columbia's minimum wage law was unconstitutional due to its interference with employer-employee contract negotiations.