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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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The lack of ability to imprison or kill corporations over criminal matters is one of the reasons corporations should not be considered legal "persons."
Agreed. That was my main point. Apple losing the antitrust case is not analogous to employees being punished for wrongdoing.
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Agreed. That was my main point. Apple losing the antitrust case is not analogous to employees being punished for wrongdoing. |
Any corporate lawyer please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this represents a awful confusion of ideas.
Corporations ARE made up of people. The idea of corporations as a legal entity is to properly distribute financial responsibility and to protect individuals in only certain kinds of business-related activities.
But if anything CRIMINAL were done, there is ALWAYS a person or persons responsible, never a corporate entity, and those persons can, and are, jailed, punished, whatever.
And even in the case of some matters that do effect the corporation as a legal entity, often individuals are singled out and punished as well for specific actions.