Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. 348 U.S. 483 (1955)
WILLIAMSON v. LEE OPTICAL CO. 348 U.S. 483 (1955)
Justice william o. douglas, for an 8–0 Supreme Court, announced that "the day is gone when this Court uses the due process clause to strike down state business regulation. Without any inquiry into actual legislative history, Douglas upheld an Oklahoma law regulating eyeglass sales, suggesting various hypothetical reasons why the legislature might have thought it necessary.
Dennis J. Mahoney
(1986)
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