[EL] another perspective on Hobby Lobby/ How the Hobby Lobby ruling transforms and weakens the American corporation

[Mark Schmitt]

I really appreciated this piece and I'm glad you sent it to this list. I
realized only recently that the Friedman view of the corporation depended
on the idea that the corporation was not the equivalent of a person and
only existed for the shareholders, whereas critics of that view (usually
considered more left), like Lynn Stout of Cornell, would argue that a
corporation is an independent entity with obligations of its own. I was
looking for a piece that would help me understand that debate and how it
related to arguments about corporate personhood stemming from Citizens
United and Hobby Lobby, and this was exactly what I was looking for.

Mark Schmitt
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Schultz, David A. <dschultz at hamline.edu>
wrote:

> Joe:
> Hobby Lobby and Citizens United both have  implications for election law.
> Hobby Lobby takes us further down the road toward giving corporations more
> rights that real persons have and in the process, sets precedents for
> further challenges to restrictions on corporate political activity.  Hobby
> Lobby and CU together, as my op-ed point out, show some of the implications
> that go with politicizing  corporate behavior and eviscerating the line
> between real persons and corporations.  I had hoped that if you read my
> op-ed you would have seen that point.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Joe La Rue <joseph.e.larue at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Again I ask: what does Hobby Lobby have to do with election law? If we
>> are going to have this debate here I'll be glad to have it.  But I've
>> always thought Rick wants the list serve to be about election law, not
>> prolife or abortion debates.
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 7:42, "Schultz, David A." <dschultz at hamline.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Conservatives got what they wanted in Citizens United and Hobby Lobby and
>> now they will pay the price with a weakened  American corporation.  Read
>> why Hobby Lobby did more to change corporate law than any liberal reformer
>> could do.
>>
>> "How the Hobby Lobby ruling transforms and weakens the American
>> corporation"
>>
>>
>> http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2014/07/how-hobby-lobby-ruling-transforms-and-weakens-american-corporation
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