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Controversy surrounding the role of corporations in public life has not abated in the six years since the Justices decided, in Citizens United v. FEC,[1] that corporations have political-speech rights secured by the First Amendment. If anything, the …
The Supreme Court’s protection of corporate political expenditures in Citizens United v. FEC and corporate religious exercise in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby has rekindled perennial fears about the influence of corporations in U.S. politics and policy. One popular response has …
Critics lament that with Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the Supreme Court further expanded corporate personhood powers. My forthcoming article offers an alternative reading. It suggests that Hobby Lobby might actually provide a tool for limiting previously recognized corporate …
The question of corporate rights has garnered much attention in academic as well as lay circles since the Supreme Court’s decisions in Citizens United v. FEC and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.[1] Yet the status of incorporated …