| Litigants: | Hutchinson Ice Cream Co. v. Iowa |
| Arguedate: | November 13 |
| Argueyear: | 1916 |
| Decidedate: | December 4 |
| Decideyear: | 1916 |
| Fullname: | Hutchinson Ice Cream Co. v. Iowa |
| Usvol: | 242 |
| Uspage: | 153 |
| Parallelcitations: | 37 S. Ct. 28; 61 L. Ed. 217 |
| Holding: | The local law banning the sale of products without sufficient butter-fat content as "ice cream" was constitutional. |
| Majority: | Brandeis |
| Joinmajority: | unanimous |
Hutchinson Ice Cream Co. v. Iowa, 242 U.S. 153 (1916), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the local law banning the sale of products without sufficient butter-fat content as "ice cream" was constitutional.[1]
Even during the Lochner era, when the Court was anxious to protect economic due process as a fundamental right, the Court consistently upheld the regulation of dairy in cases like Hutchinson Ice Cream Co..[2]