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[Rufus Wheeler Peckham](https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/peckham-rufus-wheeler) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1896 until his death in 1909. Before joining the Court, he served on New York's Court of Appeals and in private and public legal offices. He wrote the majority opinion in Lochner v. New York (1905), which struck down limits on bakery working hours under a Fourteenth Amendment liberty-of-contract analysis that later became associated with the Lochner era.
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