Talk:A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States

message: I'm pretty sure Schechter is an example of production (i.e. not interstate commerce) as opposed to distribution (interstate commerce). [See US v. EC Knight] That might be worth including if it can be verified.
Lack of any discussion on the case's details and nuances seem to me to be a serious detriment to overall understanding of this case, especially since the particulars of the charges against the small business owners are so ludicrous on their surface.  There is excellent discussion of this elsewhere, including in a book by Amity Shlaes called "The Forgotten Man:  A New History of the Great Depression" in 2007.  Essentially, this is best understood as a case of government powered beaurocrats persecuting the common little guy by starting with a set of ludicrous regulations that make no common sense, except as a means of promoting gross inefficiency as a means of raising employment (as just one example) and then twisting even those regs to a ridiculous level in order to find some way to prosecute these minority small businessmen. (One example is that the "sick chicken" was only found after government investigators bought and then AUTOPSIED 60 chickens until they found one with impacted eggs!  Knowing that THIS was the "sick chicken" that was supposedly sold by these small wholesalers is, I think, an enlightening detail.  Another is that the "wage and hour" regs that they were accused of ignoring were related to the hours worked by the four brothers themselves!)  These details may not be central to the legal questions specifically, such as the issue of whether or not the promulgation of the NIRA regs violated the Commerce clause of the Constitution, but they do serve an important purpose, I think.  Namely to point out the law of unintended consequences and how often more government intrusion into our business and personal lives has idiotic results.
--74.197.217.150 (talk) 05:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Everyone is always free to expand an article, but there are two issues with your comments.  1) The article is about the Supreme Court's decision, so details outside of what they considered may not be relevant, even if true, or at the very least may need to be properly contextualized so we know why the article includes those facts but we're clear that it wasn't part of the universe the Court considered.  2)  We can't use Wikipedia articles to "point out" such things as the viewpoint that government intrusion is a bad thing, per our fundamental policy requiring articles to have a neutral point of view.  You could properly summarize notable critical commentary regarding the case, however, so it might be proper to add a paragraph summarizing Shlaes' view of the case (depending on who Shlaes is), as long as the article is not saying Shlaes' characterization is correct.  Postdlf (talk) 13:44, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
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