Corporate Interests

Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights

1978-04-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 6/10

Justice Lewis Powell delivers majority opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (435 U.S. 765), establishing for first time that corporations have First Amendment speech rights to influence ballot initiatives and political campaigns. Powell’s 5-4 decision strikes down Massachusetts …

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Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline

1967-07-23 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

A Detroit Police Department raid on an unlicensed after-hours bar in the heart of the city’s predominantly African American inner city ignites one of the most violent and destructive civil disturbances in American history. The five-day uprising leaves 43 people dead, more than 1,000 injured, …

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Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes

1895-05-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The U.S. Supreme Court issues a unanimous 9-0 decision in In re Debs, upholding the federal government’s use of injunctions to suppress labor strikes and affirming Eugene V. Debs’s contempt of court conviction for continuing the 1894 Pullman Strike in violation of a federal court order. …

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