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Why we're better off treating corporations as people under the law-and making them behave like citizens Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court launched a heated debate when it ruled in Citizens United that corporations can claim the same free speech rights as humans. Should corporations...
1. (Law) a group of people authorized by law to act as a legal personality and having its own powers, duties, and liabilities 2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Also called: municipal corporation the municipal authorities of a city or town 3. a group of people acting as one body 4...
It prescribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of other people. Most criminal law is established by statute, which is to say that the laws are...
Corporations are businesses that are treated like individual people by the law. A corporation can own assets, hire employees, sign contracts, and exercise individual rights. In this post, learn the full definition of a corporation, including how corporations are formed and how they operate. What ...
Federal law in this area is usually similar to state law. The instrumentality and alter ego doctrines used by courts are practically indistinguishable. Courts following the instrumentality doctrine concentrate on finding three factors: (1) the people behind the corporation dominate the corporation's ...
After all, breaking the law costs very little, with fines for labor law violations capped at meager amounts. There are likely cold, hard calculations behind the cost-benefit analysis of breaking labor laws versus allowing workers to organize for what they want. Even though workers in two Apple...
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The law allows the seller of such stock to pay a lower tax tate on the capital gain. However, gains from stock owned for less than six months are taxed at the rate of regular income. Many business people have complained―probably with some justification―that high corporate taxes interfere ...