{"id":416,"date":"2011-07-26T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miblaw.com\/lawschool\/?p=416"},"modified":"2011-07-26T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:35:48","slug":"ala-schechter-poultry-corp-v-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miblaw.com\/lawschool\/ala-schechter-poultry-corp-v-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 US 495 (1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Case Name: <\/strong>A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States<br \/>\n<strong>Citation: <\/strong>295 U.S. 495 (1935)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issue: <\/strong>Whether Congress can regulate as regarding the slaughtering and selling by defendants which was solely in New York.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts<\/strong>: Schechter is a chicken slaughterhouse in New York. Almost all the poultry coming to New York is sent from other states. Schechter was convicted on eighteen counts for violating the &#8220;Live Poultry Code.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This Code required sellers to sell only entire coops or half-coops of chickens and made it illegal for buyers to reject individual chickens as well as regulated employment (collective bargaining, prohibiting child labor, 40-hour work week, and minimum wage). Came out of the National Industrial Recovery Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding<\/strong>: Congress cannot regulate this because Schechter&#8217;s activities only occur in New York and only has an in-direct impact on interstate commerce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reasoning: <\/strong>The interstate commerce ended once the defendants purchased the chickens and took them to their slaughterhouse. The flow in interstate commerce (or &#8220;stream of commerce&#8221;) had ceased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case Name: A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. 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