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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A couple of folks emailed me with the correct
answer, but Autoplectic got there first.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The answer is Chief Justice Rehnquist, who was
actually far more skeptical of giving constitutional rights to corporations than
liberals like Justice Brennan and Marshall.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=nathanne@nathannewman.org
href="mailto:nathanne@nathannewman.org">Nathan Newman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 17, 2005 6:31 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] Which Supreme Court
Justice Said This?</DIV>
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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...
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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 class=br></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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