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In reply to the discussion: Worst Supreme Court decision of all time [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... that was horrible. A corrupt court clerk that wrote the head note that summarized this case was the one that established corporate personhood precedent with HIS OWN WORDS, and not words that reflected the actual decision of the supremes then, whose on words in that case DID NOT establish precedent of corporate personhood. Thom Hartmann notes this in his book and in other articles/publications.
That would be one way for a future non-corrupt supreme court that would overturn that notion of corporate personhood and the cases that used this faulty head note as "stare decisis" to justify other rulings such as Citizen's United. A future court could show that using that faulty head note as "stare decisis" was faulty and that all subsequent cases trying to do so should be invalidated, and that overturning all of these cases should be done in the REAL implementation of stare decisis, where there IS NO legitimate base decision on corporate personhood that other court cases can use to justify their decisions, without their own making the case of why corporate personhood is legitimate based on real court justice rulings, not a head note written by an ex-railroad exec corrupt court clerk for Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Co.
Read more here from Jim Hightower on this topic...
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/664#.VQMRtmTF9Q0