From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 02:04:53 MDT
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From: Michael M. Butler <butler@comp-lib.org>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: LEGAL THEORY/CORPORATE Fictive "person"hood, was Re: Terror Kids With Bombs - Clash of Civilization ...
> > > Forrest Bishop wrote:
> > > > This is a legal "theory" that apparently started with the 1898 US Bankruptcy Act
>
> I found the cite.
>
> Navigate to http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/CaseSummary.html
>
> and search for 1886. You should find two interesting ones:
>
> Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad 118 US 394 (1886): Corporations
> are persons under the 14th amendment. That's the one I was thinking of. So
> you can push your "starting date" back a bit.
http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Santa/
Thank you so much! A very interesting case indeed. I haven't worked on this particular aspect for awhile (Samantha's query touched
it off), it's a little far afield from what I 'm doing now.
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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