Discussion for article #224224
They didn’t list who ruled on which side of the case?? That’s like the first thing people look for. AP is going downhill.
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At first blush it sounds like they are saying that fraud is not a problem in and of itself.
Sounds suspiciously like their ruling in the free speech for “lies” case.
I wonder if this will blow back on them somehow.
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Rupert Murdoch won his appeals years ago–he has license to force his Fux minions to lie, without any legal recourse. This is just more of the same fascism, elevated by the right wing nut jobs of the SCOTUS.
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Shock! Shock I tell you! A ruling from this Bush/Cheney Supreme Court that favors corporation rights over the individual.
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I think it’s reasonable that a party to a lawsuit have the opportunity to demonstrate their own innocence before being forced through an expensive court case. From the article, it’s not clear how much time or to what degree the defending corporation must prove their own ‘innocence’. Do they get years, which would be chilling on any group of investors seeking to reclaim damages, or would this allow a court case to proceed more speedily after preliminary findings?
This article also gives the impression that most of these shareholders are small you and me folks, when in reality, these are other instutional investors. It’s hard for me to get worked up over two corporations/billionairs having their ‘rights’ to play legal games with each other limited by the SCOTUS.
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Former Halliburton CEO Dick Torturer Cheney’s appointees to the Supreme Court are proving their worth and providing a good return on investment for their corporate overlords. What a shock.
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what was the vote…
Really, short of just flat-out saying “you can’t”, how could they make it much tougher to sue corporations for anything?
This corporate boot licking Robert’s led right wing activist SCOTUS are destroying our nation, one disastrous ruling after another. God help us.
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So watch for "Smiling Bob" and the fake boner pills, to the nth exponent. Let the buyer beware, fraudulent business practices are just GOOD BUSINESS, right?
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Not only are corporations people, but they’re “special” people.
Time to rattle the cages of a number of CEOs.
So what happens when the yahoos start using their Second Amendment Free-Dumbs to redress their grievances, seeing as the courts are slamming the door in their faces?
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you will see the power of the state crush them.
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Per the Washington Post, “While the court’s judgment was unanimous, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a separate opinion saying that Basic should be overruled because economic realities have undermined its premise. He was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito.”
Yep. Here it comes…Rolaids, Tums, Maalox or Mylanta…
If in doubt…I hear a little baking soda mixed with a little warm water is also an acceptable option.
Fuck SCOTUS and the Four (in this case, five) Horses of the Apocalypse they rode in on…I think its gonna be a lonnnng shitty day as it concerns these putrid assholes.
Take a deep breath and have some herbal tea instead:
The Supreme Court on Monday handed President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency a victory in its efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
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United Corporations of Amurka
I read that one…but the other cases still to be rendered have me very concerned indeed. Wish I literally had a chill pill…just kidding. NOT.
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How much tougher are they going to make it to sue Our Noble Corporate Overlords for anything?