Legal News for Weds 5/27 - Biden Sues DOJ Over Interview Audio, Trump "Litigation Safari" Brief, Billionaire Lindberg Gets 12 Years, CO Tightens Debt-buyer Rules
This Day in Legal History: Black Monday and the End of the NIRA
On May 27, 1935 — a day quickly dubbed “Black Monday” by the press — the United States Supreme Court delivered three unanimous decisions that gutted central pieces of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in a single morning. The most consequential was A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, in which the Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act. The case grew out of the prosecution of a Brooklyn kosher poultry slaughterhouse for violating the “Live Poultry Code,” one of the hundreds of industry codes drafted by…
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