A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
United States Supreme Court
295 U.S. 495 (1935)
Relevant factsFree
Schechter (defendant) ran a Brooklyn poultry slaughterhouse that bought poultry that had already completed its interstate journey and then slaughtered and sold it locally to New York retailers; it was convicted of violating wage, hour, and quality regulations under the Live Poultry Code, promulgated under a statute letting the President approve industry "codes of fair competition" with essentially no substantive standards.
IssueFree
Whether Congress may delegate lawmaking authority to the executive without prescribing standards for exercising it, and whether Congress may regulate wholly intrastate activities that affect interstate commerce only indirectly.