Sick Chicken Case
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. Sc...
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. Sc...
