- This case had been a landmark decision regarding the issues of minimum wage for female and child workers in businesses located in the District of Columbia. '
- The case arose when the workers at the "Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia" sued the hospital directory board on the grounds that the regulations involving wages violated their contract (involving the law that established the wages).
- The case had been brought to the Supreme Court and it had been decide hat the minimum wage that had been assigned to women that worked at the hospital, and theoretically it applied to other cases as well, violated the Due Process Clause written within the Fifth Amendment. This created the temporary precedent of minimum wage standards.