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jsbowden ([personal profile] jsbowden) wrote2010-03-04 02:35 pm
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Question for you legal types...

Now that we've decided that corporations are actual people, can we start prosecuting them and killing them when their stupid policies result in killing either their customers or employees (and said corp. can be shown to have known this was a potential outcome and chose not to mitigate it, because hey, we can't keep our shareholders from earning that extra $0.001 per share, now can we)?

[identity profile] haides.livejournal.com 2010-03-04 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
No, because they're not people. They're just entitled to free speech as they're run by people entitled to said right.

[identity profile] publius1.livejournal.com 2010-03-04 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
No; the Supreme Court has, for the past 100 years, treated Corporations as people for legal reasons. Yay for substantive due process. Also, yay for a stray judge's comment becoming stare decisis-level LOTL.