Lochnerize

Meaning

Verb

  • To read one's policy preferences into the Constitution, as was (allegedly) done by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1905 case Lochner v. New York.

Origin

  • Lochner + -ize; from Lochner v. New York, the title of a case decided by the U.S Supreme Court in 1905.

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