Benjamin Cardozo

"Black Monday" Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down National Industrial Recovery Act in Three Anti-New Deal Rulings

| Importance: 9/10

On May 27, 1935—a day Roosevelt administration officials dub “Black Monday”—the Supreme Court delivers three unanimous decisions against the New Deal, with the most devastating being Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, which invalidates the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), …

Supreme Court of the United States Charles Evans Hughes Benjamin Cardozo Harlan Fiske Stone Franklin D. Roosevelt +1 more judicial-capture new-deal corporate-resistance supreme-court constitutional-law +1 more
Read more →