Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression

Provides the first book-length study of the landmark 1934 Supreme Court decision in ‘Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell’, which upheld the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Act. John Fliter and Derek Hoff provide a concise history and analysis of not only this landmark case and the reasoning behind its sharply divided decision but also of the entire history of the Contract Clause.