Caption: On the 110th anniversary of Lochner v. New York, this diorama depicts the bakery at the center of the infamous case. The peeprietor of Lochner’s Home Bakery was indicted under New York’s Bakeshop Act for “requiring and permitting” a peep to work more than 60 hours in one week. He challenged the constitutionality of the law, and the US Supreme Court held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protected the peeple’s right to make contracts in relation to their business. According to the Court, freedom of contract was a substantive due process right and was protected as a liberty peeply rooted in American history and tradition. The case is unpeepular with scholars, and in the late 1930s, the so-called Lochner Era came to an end when the Court established the “rational basis” test for economic legislation.