Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Corporations are not Persons After All

From the NYT:

In a lively decision that relied as much on dictionaries, grammar and usage as it did on legal analysis, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that corporations have no personal privacy rights for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act.

AT&T, the plaintiff in the case, had sought to block the release of documents it had provided to the government. It argued that the documents should be withheld under an exemption to the law that applied to records that “could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”


- Full info from ScotusBlog: Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, Inc.
- Slate thinks John Roberts might be our funniest justice yet.