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Petit v. Minnesota (1900)
Charge: Sunday-law violation - keeping a barber shop open on Sunday to cut hair and shave beardsCourt: Supreme Court of the United States (on review of the Minnesota Supreme Court)Docket: Close Shaves
Could Minnesota make it a crime for barbers, by name, to open on Sunday?
The facts
Minnesota law banned all labor on Sunday except works of necessity or charity. In 1887 the legislature added a sentence aimed at one trade: keeping a barber shop open on Sunday to cut hair and shave beards 'shall not be deemed a work of necessity or charity.' A barber named Petit kept his shop open on a Sunday and was tried and convicted. The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the conviction. Petit took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the law singled out barbers from every other kind of worker.
You have the facts the court had. Guilty or not guilty? Call it in the game with your friends, then see what the court actually decided. Wrong call, you drink.
Citation: Petit v. Minnesota, 177 U.S. 164 (1900)
Read more at supreme.justia.com. The source reveals the outcome.