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The NIRA was a complex, multibillion-dollarfederal law that based its authority on the-interstate- commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. Ironically, this major piece of New Deal legislation was brought down by two poultry wholesalers from Brooklyn, New York. The-Schechter brobthers operated a chicken slaughterhouse under the provisions of Jewish dietary law. Kosher law, however, conflicted with the Live Poultry Code of the NIRA, and in April 1935 the Schechterbrothers were found guilty of eighteen counts of conspiracy to violate the poultry code. In part the government charged that they were selling "an unfit chicken." In May the Schechters appealed their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, giving that body the opportunity to subject the entire NIRA to judicial review. As a result the court not only overturned the Schechter Poultry conviction on the grounds that the company...
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