I'd heard some rumblings about a court case regarding corporations as humans, but didn't really know what was up. In brief, it seems past rulings gave corporations the same rights and protections as people even though (as some argued), they don't get treated the same way for mistakes they make. Stephen Colbert tackled this earlier this week.
Last week, new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor challenged this assertion. Indeed, she argued:...the court should reconsider the 19th century rulings that first afforded corporations the same rights flesh-and-blood people have.
Read: Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law
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