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Whatever effect the president's court-packing plan may have had in 1937, the fact that labor benefited from the rather sudden and startling change in the Supreme Court's position regarding a host of concerns to its membership is undisputed. In 1938, in the case of Lauf v. E. G. Shinner & Co., the Court sustained the constitutionality of the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932, which prohibited federal courts from issuing injunctions against strikers in all but certain rare instances. The year before, in National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laugh/in Steel Corp., the Court had upheld the National Labor Relations Act, laying to rest the fear that the protections it afforded the working man would be driven into oblivion. The decision also meant that the National Labor Relations Board could resume its function, free of the harassment it had suffered since its formation. During...
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