The phonebook companies alleged in their complaint...

“The phonebook companies alleged in their complaint that the phonebook ordinance, ‘denies [their] rights guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.’(free speech and due process). If not for the legal concept of ‘corporate personhood’, the phonebook companies wouldn’t be able to sue Seattle to assert Constitutional rights originally written only for people.”

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A totally NOT insane thing that happened.

(via boing boing)