2014年7月28日 · Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court says they are, at least for some purposes. And in the past four years, the high court has dramatically expanded corporate rights.

Corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons.

2014年7月3日 · "Corporate personhood" is a principle has been lurking in U.S. law for more than a century, and the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave it more oomph this week when it ruled that certain ...

2014年7月10日 · Writing for the majority, Justice Henry Billings Brown found that corporations, like people, are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment (although the Fifth...

2018年6月15日 · Under U.S. law, some essential rights of the 14th amendment belong not only to American citizens, but also corporations—thanks to a few key Supreme Court cases and a controversial legal concept...

2018年3月5日 · The answer can be found in a bizarre—even farcical—series of lawsuits more than 130 years ago involving a lawyer who lied to the Supreme Court, an ethically challenged justice, and one of the most...

2014年7月3日 · The rulings have triggered renewed debate over the idea of corporations as people, which surfaces in legal cases stretching back to the 1880s. There are wonky legal discussions about the differences between "artificial persons" (corporations) and "natural persons" (the kind with flesh and blood).

“Corporations are people” is a legal idea more commonly referred to as corporate personhood. And while our own ideas of corporate personhood may invoke high-profile Supreme Court decisions or the recent “Panama Papers” leak, the concept …

2011年10月24日 · Among the demands of Occupy Wall Street protesters is this: an end to corporate personhood. That demand has been spelled out on protesters' signs, like one that reads, "I'll believe...

2019年1月7日 · While the U.S. Supreme has concluded that corporations are "persons" within the meaning of the Equal Protection Clause, it has been quite reticent to concede that corporations are "citizens" under the Comity Clause.