Jenkins v. Manry

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plumbers and steam fitters who were not employees of public utility corporations were in the same class as those following the same vocation who were so employed
• “Should [a plaintiff! be forced to violate the law which he thinks unconstitutional, and suffer a criminal prosecution, in order to test the validity of the law?”
• “There is no reasonable basis for requiring the examination and licensing of plumbers and steam fitters who are not employees of public-utility corporations, and exempting employees of public-utility corporations operating in the territory covered by the act.”
• “The right to work and make a living . . . may be abridged to the extent, and only to the extent, that is necessary reasonably to insure the public peace, safety, health, and like words of the police power.” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).