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In quick succession, the Supreme Court delivered a series of decisions that would affect labor no less than it did any other group or aspect of national life. On 7 January 1935 in what became known as the "Hot Oil Cases" (Panama Refining Company v. Ryan), the Court invalidated the provision in the NIRA that regulated the oil industry, having found the act to be an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power. On 6 May the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, found the Railroad Retirement Act — an act similar in structure to the social security bill then under consideration in the Congress — unconstitutional because it was a violation of due process and involved matters beyond the scope of the commerce clause. Then, on 27 May in the "Sick Chicken" case (Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U. S.), the Court invalidated the...
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