The contention that to apply the law to domestic corporations would, as to such corporations, cause it to be repugnant to the contract clause of the Constitution, is without merit.
Economists have long pointed out that tax subsidies to housing, together with the high taxes on corporations, cause too much of the economy's capital stock to be tied up in residential structures and too little in corporate capital.
Apple soon eclipsed Blackberry's core market among large corporations, causing Blackberry's valuation to plunge from $83.4 billion to $3.4 billion in less than five years.
If corporations cause harm, they need to incur a real cost.
The limited liability corporation, that is, the fact that shareholders are not responsible for damage corporations cause beyond the value of the shares that they hold, also represents a legal hurdle to this effort.
If international action is directed specifically against high-ranking Iranian individuals and corporations causing internal repression and external strife, rather than the Iranian people as a whole, those sanctions will send an unmistakable, tangible, message that the world seeks to be just and fair.
When a corporation causes harm, who exactly should take the rap?
Does it lie in the board, which society should trust to ensure that the corporation causes no harm?
To a corporation, cause-related marketing is not philanthropy.
Half the respondents were informed that a corporation caused the harm; the remainder were told that an individual did so.
