Which 1935 U.S. Supreme Court case struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act?

The 1935 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act was Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States.

The unanimous decision invalidated the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major New Deal statute that authorized industry codes covering matters such as prices, production and labor standards. The case involved the Schechter brothers’ kosher poultry business in Brooklyn, New York.

The Court held that Congress had delegated too much legislative power to the executive branch and that the federal government’s regulation of the poultry business exceeded the Commerce Clause because the conduct was primarily intrastate. The ruling ended the National Recovery Administration’s system of industry codes.

The decision came before the Supreme Court’s later shift toward broader acceptance of federal economic regulation. It is sometimes confused with West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, decided in 1937, which upheld a state minimum-wage law and helped establish a different constitutional approach to wage regulation.