Kentucky Whip & Collar Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad

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• holding the same, even when the person or thing so regulated appears to be innocuous
• upholding the Ashurst-Sumners Act, ch. 412, 49 Stat. 494, which prohibited the transportation of convict-made goods into any state where the goods are intended to be received, possessed, sold or used in violation of state law
• “In the congressional action there is nothing arbitrary or capricious bringing the statute into collision with the requirements of due process of law.”
• This legislation “proceeded upon the view ‘that free labor, properly compensated, cannot compete successfully with the enforced and unpaid or underpaid convict labor of the prison’ ”
• “In the congressional action there is nothing arbitrary or capricious bringing the statute into collision with the requirements of due process of law.”

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