When God became a Socialist ....

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by John Atkinson

c'mon buddy... you mean you never saw a dunkin' donuts t-shirt? Talk about corporate death grips... in a three mile stretch of West Main in Norwich CT there are FOUR dunkin donuts.... no dandy, no krispy kreme, no donut hole. Just dunkin. 4 of them in a three mile stretch of the same road. At least they alternate sides of the street...

Corporate abuse at it's extreme. I needed that laugh....

The question is what does the charter say? If it is limited to making donuts they have a problem, I suspect that it does not.

[Baron1710]

Continuing on...

By Statute prior to the decision...

"The charter may limit the duration of the corporation. In the absence of such a limitation, the duration is deemed to be perpetual."

[Baron1710]

And again...

"A corporation can hold its own stock or the stock of other companies. (MCAA Section 2-509)


Who needs to do their home work?

[Baron1710]

"Generally, a corporation has the same rights and privileges of an individual..."

Exceptions, "A corporation is not a citizen for the purposes of the Privileges and Immunities Clause of either Article IV or the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution" [Asbury Hospital v. Cass County, N.D. 326 U.S. 207 (1945)]

[Aquila]

Baron you should read about corporate personhood and the development of this idea,

Transformation of American Law 1870 - 1960 (The): The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (volume two of two)
by Morton Horwitz

Read it and get back to me. You're generalizing and not addressing specifics.

[Aquila]

You should also consider the legal implications of,

SANTA CLARA COUNTY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
118 U.S. 394