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The decision only applies to corporations where it's owners are indistinguishable from the business itself. Alito (who wrote for the majority) especially emphas

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > The decision only applies to corporations where it's owners are indistinguishable from the business itself. If the owners are indistinguishable from the corporation itself, its not a really a bona fide corporation -- the entire premise of the corporate liability shield, the easier deductibility of corporate expenditures, and the existence of corporations as distinct legal persons is that the whole idea of a corporation is that it is a creature of law -- of government -- distinct from its stockholders governed by a government-approved charter.