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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This was a dissent in a case which strengthened the
free speech rights of corporations against consumers. Guess who said it?
(If you know, hold off for a few hours):</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Extension of
the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains
the rationale of those cases beyond the breaking point. To ascribe to such
artificial </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>entities an
"intellect" or "mind" for freedom of conscience purposes is to confuse metaphor
with reality. Corporations generally have not played the historic role of
newspapers as conveyers of individual ideas and opinion... </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>...Because the
interest on which the constitutional protection of corporate speech rests is the
societal interest in receiving information and ideas, the constitutional
interest of a corporation in not permitting the presentation of other distinct
views clearly identified as those of the speaker is <I>de minimis</I>. This is
especially true in the case of...a regulated public utility. Any claim it may
have had to a sphere of corporate autonomy was largely surrendered to extensive
regulatory authority when it was granted legal monopoly status."<BR
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