52 days ago by Ilya Shapiro

By Ilya Shapiro Six months ago, I wrote about a law review article I had just co-authored with former Cato legal associate Caitlyn McCarthy regarding corporate rights post -Citizens United. Well, now it’s officially published, in The John Marshall Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Corporate participa ...

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72 days ago by spoutingoff

Santa Monica may follow Pittsburgh's footsteps in codifying fundamental rights of nature. In the Citizens United case last year, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that corporations have the same rights as citizens. The ruling already has changed the face of electoral politics in America, with unlimite ...

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81 days ago by agentleman

112TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION …………………………………………………………… (Original Signature of Member) H. J. RES. ll Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit cor ...

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149 days ago by Dana Blankenhorn

These are tough times to be for open source. Patent and copyright extremists are wrecking havoc, from technology markets forced to pay patent trolls and giant companies grabbing rights to the future through patents with absurd claims, to Europe extending copyright to 70 years in the name of a few li ...

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181 days ago by Ilya Shapiro

By Ilya Shapiro Mitt Romney’s explanation of why he’s against raising taxes on corporations — indeed, America already has some of the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world — at the Iowa State Fair was a bit awkward but not wholly incorrect. Reason‘s Katherine Mangu-Ward has a good post ...

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225 days ago by Ilya Shapiro

By Ilya Shapiro As Julian Sanchez detailed yesterday, those who complain about fewer restrictions on corporate political speech but celebrate the freeing of restrictions on corporate videogame speech are in a bit of a logical pretzel. But ultimately both those who think corporations have speech righ ...

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