Allgeyer v. Louisiana

Allgeyer v. Louisiana
Allgeyer v. Louisiana
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 6, 1897; Decided March 1, 1897
Full case name	E. Allgeyer & Co. v. Louisiana
Citations	165 U.S. 578 (more) 17 S. Ct. 427; 41 L. Ed. 832; 1897 U.S. LEXIS 1998
Case history
Prior	Trial court held for defendant, Allgeyer. Louisiana Supreme Court reversed. 48 La. Ann. 104.
Holding
	States may not prohibit citizens from contracting insurance out of state for acts performed outside the state.; States may not prohibit citizens from contracting insurance out of state by written communication, even if the property to be insured is within the state.;
Court membership
	Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices Stephen J. Field · John M. Harlan; Horace Gray · David J. Brewer; Henry B. Brown · George Shiras Jr.; Edward D. White · Rufus W. Peckham
Case opinion
Majority	Peckham, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Allgeyer v. Louisiana, 165 U.S. 578 (1897), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States in which a unanimous bench struck down a Louisiana statute for violating an individual's liberty of contract. It was the first case in which the Supreme Court interpreted the word liberty in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to mean economic liberty. The decision marked the beginning of the Lochner era during which the Supreme Court struck many state regulations for infringing on an individual's right to contract. The Lochner era lasted 40 years and ended when West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish was decided in 1937.

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