Tag: legal

Montana's highest court affirmed the legality of that state's century-old ban on corporate political expenditures in a Dec. 30 ruling that represents a challenge to the horrendous "Citizens United" decision by the United States Supreme Court equating corporations with people.

The ruling in Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. State of Montana may also represent the beginning of the end for a budding corporate oligarchy that has disenfranchised middle class voters, allowed influential industries to raid the federal treasury, and morphed American government into a pay-to-play system of political patronage the past 30 years. It comes just three months after the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has rallied the 99% against the corporate exploiters of the ruling 1%

“This is a huge victory for democracy,” said John Bonifaz, director of Free Speech For People, a national campaign to reverse the Citizens United ruling in January 2010.

By Art Kirkland Let's say you got in a fistfight with your next-door neighbor. You wouldn't expect to find yourself being judged in court by...

Still think there's one justice system for all of us in the United States? Think again. Socialite Beata Boman was given...

This just in from the world where people do things they know are wrong: New York stockbroker Martin Kessman is suing the White Castle...

This fantastic NYT story provides the best look inside the law school business we have ever seen. It explains a lot. Including why lawyers...