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When Did Companies Become People? Excavating The Legal ...


A Century-Old Question: Are Corporations People?

Complaints about judicial overreach, and especially of the Supreme Court conferring personhood on corporations, are nothing new, ...

The Corporate Origins of Individual Rights - econ.umd.edu

Public law concerned the operation of the Roman state and society, private law the well being of persons and actions that ... Under this law corporations were ...

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. | 118 U.S. 394 ...

On the 17th of December, 1877, the said Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and other railroad corporations then existing under the laws of California, were ...

Corporate Personhood: Examining the Legal Identity of De Jure ...

Corporate personhood, the idea that corporations are entitled to the same constitutional rights as natural persons, has been a controversial ...

The Corporate Right to Bear Arms

times grants rights to corporations as legal persons, and then at ... has actually described corporations as people less frequently.94.

Santa Clara Revisited: The Development of Corporate Theory

the members of a corporation were to be regarded as individuals carrying ... " Even if there were no laws creating corporations, "'men would necessarily ...

The Fifth Circuit Holds that a Corporation is Not a Person—At Least ...

... being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. ... ” Because Lexington, a limited liability company, was the claimant ...

incorporation doctrine | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute

States and state courts could choose to adopt similar laws, but were under no obligation to do so. After the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme ...

Code Section Group - California Legislative Information

... to be excavated has been delineated. (b) Except in an emergency, an ... has until the legal excavation start date and time to respond. However, an ...

Doing Business with FEMA

Place you on a preferred list of vendors to be considered for procurements; FEMA does not maintain such a list. Guarantee contract award. Please ...

legal personhood: how we are getting it wrong alexis dyschkant

We treat humans as persons, and we need not worry about why we do so.20. The relevant point is that the human being acts as a heuristic, or a ...

Rise of the Corporation Nation1

... corporations were just fine, as evidenced by the fact that many of the people ... The authors of the earliest treatise of U.S. business corporation law did not ...

3. TIMELINE ON CORPORATE PERSONHOOD - Public Citizen

... were a source of partisan political patronage and cam- paign funding.8 In its aftermath, corporate leaders and corporations' own coffers become a major source ...

The American Jurisprudence of Personhood and the Rapid ... - Cairn

” Human Rights Law Review 7 (2007): 511-543. Consulter; Hartmann, Thomas. Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became “People”– and How You Can Fight Back. 2 ...

the roots of "corporate personhood" | Society for US Intellectual History

But the doctrine that it references, first established in the 1886 Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, is real, ...

IN DEFENSE OF CORPORATE PERSONS*

In any legal jurisdiction worth its salt, the search for culpable individuals has to be part of the settling-up of any man-made disaster.

Author traces rise of corporate rights above those of citizens

... business, the law and history says. And depending on the ruling in a ... has become even worse. The non-partisan Campaign Finance ...

Corporations (First Amendment Rights) - Free Speech Center - MTSU

... has the same rights under the First Amendment as people. Regulation of ... Beaumont (2003) said laws barring corporations' direct candidate

Vaughn Excavating and Const., Inc. v. P.S. Cook Co. :: 1999

... has consented to be bound only within the express terms of the surety contract. ... Justia © 2024 Justia Justia Connect Legal Portal Company Help Terms of Service ...

Beaver Excavating Co. v. Testa - Supreme Court of Ohio

{¶ 10} The tax commissioner distinguishes the taxpayers' claim from one that would assert that tax revenues were being expended outside the ...