Monday, August 13, 2012
Montana high court okays corporate personhood ballot initiative, strikes down tax referendum
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Montana [official website] on Friday ruled [decision, PDF] that its state's November ballots may include Initiative 166 [text, PDF], a nonbinding policy statement that would direct the state's congress to support an amendment to the US Constitution [text] asserting that corporations are not people and money does not qualify as speech. The goal of the endeavor is to counteract the 2010 US Supreme Court [official website] decision of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission [text,...
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