Argued May 2–3, 1935, and decided on May 27, 1935, the case of A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States effectively nullified Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA), a key piece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation. Title I of the NIRA was aimed at stabilizing and encouraging an expansion of American industry during the global economic collapse of the Great Depression. Within Title I was the Live Poultry Code, which, in addition to other items, banned certain methods of unfair competition, outlined animal selection criteria, and imposed meat quality standards on the poultry industry. The NIRA also provided significant protections for workers and unintentionally promoted monopolies, resulting in considerable labor unrest and loss of commercial and industrial support for the policy. The government had argued that the national economic emergency required special consideration by the judiciary as a necessary practicality.