Supreme Court to decide if corporations can be sued for human rights abuses

[arlygoodbrownie]

Wait... How the hell does this not already exist? It's common sense to have it, but we don't...?

Either I'm missing something, or this nation is even more pathetic than I thought...

[Anti Christ]

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;34864682]Even in bribing corporations like to save money! Why bribe all of them, when you can just bribe the majority[/QUOTE]

Well it's more along the lines of how obvious it would be. If every single judge said that corporations can't get in trouble, it'd be blatantly obvious that they were bribed. But if some of them say no, it's slightly less apparent.

Either way, if you want to say a corporation is a person, then that corporation should have the responsibility of being a person. They have to follow the same laws everyone else does. You don't get to cherry pick the good and the bad. If you want the benefits, you get the responsibility of those benefits.

[neos300]

[QUOTE=BearsOnFire;34866054]No they aren't. Corporate personhood has been around for almost two hundred years.

It's interesting to see them use the argument that people in a corporation can be sued, but not the actual corporation. I might be wrong here, but I thought the entire idea of a corporation was to protect the members of the corporation i.e. LLC (Limited Liability Company).[/QUOTE]

Most large multinational companies aren't LLC's.

[SaberVS7]

[QUOTE=BearsOnFire;34866054]No they aren't. Corporate personhood has been around for almost two hundred years.

It's interesting to see them use the argument that people in a corporation can be sued, but not the actual corporation. I might be wrong here, but I thought the entire idea of a corporation was to protect the members of the corporation i.e. LLC (Limited Liability Company).[/QUOTE]

[quote]Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 08-205 (2010), 558 U.S. ––––, 130 S.Ct. 876 (January 21, [b]2010[/b])[/quote]

No, corporate personhood has been around for 2 years.

[BearsOnFire]

Citizens united did not create corporate personhood, it simply used it to extend first amendment rights, in terms of political contributions, to corporations.

[[Seed Eater]]

[QUOTE=MachiniOs;34862078]I can only imagine how fucked Coca Cola would have been.[/QUOTE]

How fucked Coca Cola [i]is[/i]. They're still absolute shit. Alot of their worst seems to be behind them, but nonetheless, they continue to enact labor abuse, environmental harm, and other nonos.

[url]http://www.knowmore.org/wiki/index.php?title=Coca_Cola[/url]

[Madman_Andre]

[QUOTE=blacksam;34861667]Romney is going to be so pissed.
"Corporations are people too"[/QUOTE]

It is going to be a double-edged sword I think, won't be so funny will it when the entire Boards of Directors and CEOs of the companies bankrolling him are suddenly brought up on various charges of murder and human rights abuses because they are now considered "people." :v:

[mac338]

I find it hard to believe that there was no "lobbying" involved in the Citizens United ruling.