[1] New York State dairy farmers were disproportionately harmed by the decline in farm prices after World War I, and the Great Depression further worsened the problems they faced.

[2] Following the hearings, the state of New York established a Milk Control Board in 1933 that was empowered to set maximum and minimum retail prices.

Tensions ran so high that violent milk strikes took place throughout the state, with two deaths and a great amount of property damage.

[3] Every public hearing of the Milk Control Board resulted in a "tumultuous, popular assemblage" and its every action was "Statewide news.

As the Court has held before, such due process "demands only that the law shall not be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious, and that the means selected shall have a real and substantial relation to the object sought to be attained.

He added, "With the wisdom of the policy adopted, with the adequacy or practicability of the law enacted to forward it, the courts are both incompetent and unauthorized to deal.

"[7] He concluded that the majority found no basis in the Due Process Clause to strike down the challenged provisions of the Agriculture and Markets Law.