{"id":5071,"date":"2023-10-16T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-one-of-americas-most-corporate-crime-friendly-bankruptcy-judges-forced-to-recuse-himself-16-oct-2023"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:45:31","slug":"pluralistic-one-of-americas-most-corporate-crime-friendly-bankruptcy-judges-forced-to-recuse-himself-16-oct-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-one-of-americas-most-corporate-crime-friendly-bankruptcy-judges-forced-to-recuse-himself-16-oct-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself (16 Oct 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links One of America’s most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself: Judge David Jones rigged the ‘Texas Two-Step’ cases his secret girlfriend argued in his court. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading One of America’s most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself (permalink) “I\u2019ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.” The now-famous quip from Robert Reich cuts to the bone of corporate personhood. Corporations are people with speech rights. They are heat-shields that absorb liability on behalf of their owners and managers. But the membrane separating corporations from people is selectively permeable. A corporation is separate from its owners, who are not liable for its deeds – but it can also be “closely held,” and so inseparable from those owners that their religious beliefs can excuse their companies from obeying laws they don’t like: https:\/\/clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu\/2014\/10\/13\/hobby-lobby-and-closely-held-corporations\/ Corporations – not their owners – are liable for their misdeeds (that’s the “limited liability” in “limited liablity corporation”). But owners of a murderous company can hold their victims’ families hostage and secure bankruptcies for their companies that wipe out their owners’ culpability – without any requirement for the owners to surrender their billions to the people they killed and maimed: https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/08\/11\/justice-delayed\/#justice-redeemed Corporations are, in other words, a kind of Schroedinger’s Cat for impunity: when it helps the ruling class, corporations are inseparable from their owners; when that would hinder…Pluralistic: One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself (16 Oct 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s links One of America’s most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself: Judge David Jones rigged the ‘Texas Two-Step’ cases his secret girlfriend argued in his court. Hey look… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2093,739,3879,4892,300,4893,1906,2472,4894,1966,4712,733,811,4891,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}