Corporate
Nov. 2, 2009
Corporations and Cats
Justice Arthur Gilbert of the 2nd District Court of Appeal offers his personal take on corporation First Amendment issues.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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"A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.... Its immortality no more confers on it political power, or a political character, than immortality would confer such power or character on a natural person." So wrote Chief Justice John Marshall in Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) 17 U.S. 518, 636.
John Marshall's sentiments may have been ...
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