Schechter Case Summary

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A.L.A Schechter v. United States In 1933 the United States Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s different sectors in order to stimulate economic recovery. This act is widely known as the New Deal. As part of the New Deal, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), allowed the President to commend “codes of fair competition,” these codes were developed and contributed by unions, interest groups and boards from different industries (Epstein, L., & Walker, T. G., 2014). Among these new laws were The Live Poultry Code which established minimum wages, child labor laws, and union rights in the poultry industry.
In 1934, the President Roosevelt permitted the "Code of Fair Competition for …show more content…
Government officials found Schechter’s in violation the Live Poultry Code numerous times. Schechter’s failed to observe the minimum wage and maximum hour requirements applicable to workers and that it had violated a provision of the Live Poultry Code prohibiting the sale of unfit chickens. One of the worst counts on which they were convicted was for selling a dead birds, leading this case to be known as the "sick chicken case" federal officials indicted Schechter brothers on 60 cases, and jury found them guilty of 19 violations (Epstein, L., & Walker, T. G., 2014). Ultimately each brother was sentenced on short jail term. They appealed to the court of appeals but they were unsuccessful, which led their case to reach the Supreme Court which agreed to hear their appeal in 1935. The brothers argued that The NIRA was unconstitutional on improper delegation and commerce clause …show more content…
G., 2014). Therefore the act can regulate local state commerce. The administration also argued that Schechter’s slaughtering business was doing or was “ related to interstate movement that it makes no difference what parts of their business are “in” intrastate commerce and what parts are less “in “interstate but still necessary to its functioning” (Epstein, L., & Walker, T. G., 2014). This argument is made because Schechter’s were getting their chicken from different sources, some of those were out of the state of New
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