{"id":498,"date":"2011-08-11T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miblaw.com\/lawschool\/?p=498"},"modified":"2012-05-07T00:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T04:50:45","slug":"coppage-v-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miblaw.com\/lawschool\/coppage-v-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Coppage v. Kansas, 236 U.S. 1 (1915)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Case Name: <\/strong>Coppage v. Kansas (1915)<\/div>\n
Citation: <\/strong>236 U.S. 1 (1915)<\/div>\n

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Issue: <\/strong>Whether a Kansas act interfered with the right to make a contract under the 14th amendment that did not allow an employer to forbid an employee to join an union .
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Facts:<\/strong>\u00a0Coppage was found guilty of violating a Kansas act that would not allow an individual to coerce a person into an agreement\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0to join a union. According to the facts, Coppage offered the employee an option to remain employed if he would retire from the union. Previously in Adair v. United States, the Supreme Court held a similar federal law to be “an invasion of personal liberty as well as of the right of property guaranteed by the 5th Amendment.”<\/p>\n

Holding: <\/strong>Coppage’s conviction was overturned.\u00a0An employer who asks a man to agree in advance to refrain from affiliation with a union is not asking him to give up a part of his constitutional freedom.<\/p>\n

Reasoning:<\/strong>\u00a0Same reasoning as used in Adair.\u00a0The right of the employee to quit for whatever reason is the same as the right of the employer to fire the employee for whatever reason. The court took for granted the equal freedom of employment contracts stating that “each party [has] the right to stipulate [ ] what terms [ ] he will consent to.” Contracts of personal employment are included in the right to make contracts for acquisition of property, interfering with this right is a “substantial impairment of liberty in the long-established constitutional sense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Case Name: Coppage v. Kansas (1915) Citation: 236 U.S. 1 (1915)   Issue: Whether a Kansas act interfered with the right to make a contract under the 14th amendment that did not allow an employer to forbid an employee to join an union . Facts:\u00a0Coppage was found guilty of violating a Kansas act that would … <\/p>\n

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