“ Corporate personhood” is the notion that a corporation has the rights of a person under the constitution.
Corporations have access to the Bill of Rights.
Nike: insisted on First Amendment rights of free speech which would allow false advertising.
Dow Chemical: asserted it has Fourth Amendment privacy rights and could refuse to allow the EPA to do surprise inspections of its facilities.
J.C. Penney: asserted it had a Fourteenth Amendment right to be free from discrimination (designed to help freed slaves) and that communities that were trying to keep out chain stores were practicing illegal discrimination.
Tobacco and asbestos companies: asserted they had Fifth Amendment rights to keep secret what they knew about the dangers of their products.
Diebold-ES&S, Ivotronic, and Sequoia voting machines: the claim to corporate personal privacy has been used to prevent impartial inspection of the public function of touch screen voting machines. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9pwsj/revealed_6_healthcare_lobbyists_for_every_member/c0dvwpy
Corporations have access to the Bill of Rights.
Nike: insisted on First Amendment rights of free speech which would allow false advertising.
Dow Chemical: asserted it has Fourth Amendment privacy rights and could refuse to allow the EPA to do surprise inspections of its facilities.
J.C. Penney: asserted it had a Fourteenth Amendment right to be free from discrimination (designed to help freed slaves) and that communities that were trying to keep out chain stores were practicing illegal discrimination.
Tobacco and asbestos companies: asserted they had Fifth Amendment rights to keep secret what they knew about the dangers of their products.
Diebold-ES&S, Ivotronic, and Sequoia voting machines: the claim to corporate personal privacy has been used to prevent impartial inspection of the public function of touch screen voting machines. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9pwsj/revealed_6_healthcare_lobbyists_for_every_member/c0dvwpy
