In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court strike down federal legislation aimed at child labor reform, which would have cost business dearly, on the grounds that the law went beyond congressional power to regulate interstate commerce?

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Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) was the case where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916. The Court ruled that the act exceeded Congress's powers under the Commerce Clause because it sought to regulate labor conditions, which were considered a matter of local, not interstate, commerce.

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