As a jurist, Brown was generally against government intervention in business, and joined the majority opinion in Lochner v. New York (1905) striking down a limitation on maximum working hours.
 He did, however, support the federal income tax in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), and wrote for the Court in  Holden v. Hardy (1898), upholding a Utah law restricting male miners to an eight-hour day.
As a jurist, Brown was generally against government intervention in business, and joined the majority opinion in Lochner v. New York (1905) striking down a limitation on maximum working hours.  He did, however, support the federal income tax in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), and wrote for the Court in  Holden v. Hardy (1898), upholding a Utah law restricting male miners to an eight-hour day.
Henry Billings Brown