The Sick Chicken Case: The Us Supreme Court and the New Deal

by Williamjames Hull Hoffer

Book Overview

The defining legal history of a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court that gutted a key piece of FDR's New Deal.

On May 25, 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, the US Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that dealt mortal blows to New Deal legislation and presidential initiatives--a day known to New Dealers as Black Monday. The most significant of these decisions was A.L.A. Schechter Poultry v. U.S., which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700638164
• ISBN13: 9780700638161
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 184 Pages