Brandeis brief

[3] The rest of the document contained testimony by medics, social scientists, and male workers arguing that long hours had a negative effect on the "health, safety, morals, and general welfare of women.

"[4][5] Brandeis's sister-in-law, legal reformer Josephine Clara Goldmark of the National Consumers League, helped compile most of the information in the brief.

[6] In describing these women's research efforts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the following: Josephine Goldmark, aided by her sister Pauline and several other volunteer researchers, scoured the Columbia University and New York Public Libraries in search of materials of the kind Brandeis wanted—facts and figures on dangers to women’s health, safety, and morals from working excessive hours, and on the societal benefits shortened hours could yield.

Data was extracted from reports of factory inspectors, physicians, trade unions, economists, and social workers.

It is considered a model for future Supreme Court presentations in cases affecting the health or welfare of classes of individuals.