sances.info

Corporate lawyers have been using this headnote as fact for more than 100 years. Our chief justice, John Roberts, has spent much of his legal career as a corporate lawyer trying to defend this headnote as precedent. If corporations are granted personhood by the current conservative Supreme Court (as is possible in the current Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case, which was argued recently in front of the court), we are all in for serious and damaging consequences.