Supreme Court to Weigh Torture Lawsuits Against Corporations

February 2012
Los Angeles Times, February 26 2012

Two years ago, the Supreme Court said corporations were like people and had the same free-speech rights to spend unlimited sums on campaigns ads. Now, in a major test of human rights law, the justices will decide whether corporations are like people when they are sued for aiding foreign regimes that kill or torture their own people.

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