SCOTUS Hears Hobby Lobby Case

I agree that the corp has the ability to set the operational mission. That is done by the board of directors, which it MUST have to incorporate in the first place.

 

There is no external requirement imposed on corps for outside board members anywhere. Shareholders of publicly owned corps may force the board to bring in outsiders, but not necessary for corporate function or organization.

 

As Ghrit states, When setting up a Corporation, in ANY State, and it is a State Function, not a Federal Function, one MUST State WHO is on the Board of Directors, and What are the ByLaws, for said Corporation, which MUST conform to the State Statute, under which the Corporation is founded. This is ALL part, and parcel, of the Corporate Public Record, held by the State. The Corp. ByLaws are where the number, organization, and election of Directors are dealt with. As long as the Corp. ByLaws are in conformity with the Appropriate State Statute, they can setup these things, at their pleasure, and if the Stockholders decide to change the Corp. ByLaws, they can, so long as it is done, as stated in the Corp. ByLaws, and does NOT violate the State Statute, the Corp was founded under. ......

 

True, BUT, I have been a corporation when I was consulting, anyone can incorporate. All you have to do is have 3 officers and issue 1000 shares of stock. Divided among those 3 officers if you wish. That is what HL is, a private, family owned corporation. They are not publicly traded, meaning they are not on the stock market. You cannot buy stock in their company. They hold all of the stock among themselves and are therefor in complete control as to any business decisions to be made. The board of directors, all of the stock holders, are dad, mom, junior and maybe a sister.

 

Kudos to SCOTUS for their decision on this case. They are upholding their sworn duty to rule on the laws of this land and not being a puppet and rubber stamp for extremist administrations.

Corporations are people? It's a real legal concept

WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be more to that "we the people" notion than you thought.

These are boom times for the concept of "corporate personhood."

Corporations are people?

Mitt Romney got mocked during the 2012 presidential campaign for the very idea.

But it turns out the principle has been lurking in U.S. law for more than a century, and the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave it more oomph this week when it ruled that certain businesses are entitled to exercise religious rights, just as do people.

Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court's majority, said protecting the religious rights of closely held corporations, which are often small, family-run businesses, "protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control them."

In its ruling, the court said closely held corporations with religious objections cannot be forced to pay for their employees' insurance coverage for contraception, as required under President Barack Obama's health care law.

Four years earlier, the corporations-as-people idea got another big boost when the court voted 5-4 to expand the free speech rights of businesses and labor unions by striking down limits on their political spending. That unleashed a massive flood of private money into political campaigns.

The rulings have triggered renewed debate over the idea of corporations as people, which surfaces in legal cases stretching back to the 1880s.

Corporations are people? It's a real legal concept - Yahoo News

 

The dems are planning to introduce a bill to strip religion in the work place.... to counter the Hobby Lobby SCOTUS ruling.

 

Harry Reid’s Silly Ploy to Fight the Hobby Lobby Ruling - Yahoo News