[dante]

SCOTUS seems to think that corporations are only people when they want to be, but aren't the rest of the time.

In the second case argued Tuesday, the justices indicated they would rule that a 20-year-old law that allows victims of torture to pursue civil lawsuits against those responsible can only be invoked against individuals, not organizations or corporations.

The same five justices could rule in favor of corporations in the Shell case — essentially that they are different from individuals under this law. Unlike Citizens United, this case turns on the meaning of a statute, not the Constitution, and Congress could always change the law specifically to bring corporations under it.

 

[Silver]

Corporations are whatever they need the Supreme Court to say they are.

 

[jonKranked]

Corporations are whatever they need the Supreme Court to say they are.

its more like the 3/5's compromise.

 

[stevew]

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