http://robertgoodis.com/blog News and Updates from The Goodis Center for Research and Reform, LLC Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://robertgoodis.com/blog/2011/12/30/be-a-witness-to-the-darfur-genocide/#comment-47 Paydradymbods Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:46:05 +0000 http://robertgoodis.com/blog/2011/12/30/be-a-witness-to-the-darfur-genocide/#comment-47 Hello! Just want to say thank you for this interesting post! =) Peace, Joy. Hello! Just want to say thank you for this interesting post! =) Peace, Joy.

]]> http://robertgoodis.com/blog/2011/12/31/i-am-not-moving-short-film-occupy-wall-street/#comment-40 las artes Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:39:27 +0000 http://robertgoodis.com/blog/2011/12/31/i-am-not-moving-short-film-occupy-wall-street/#comment-40 Americans blame the federal government more for the nation's economic plight than they do the primary target of the Occupy Wall Street protests --- big financial institutions. If you don't know why people are protesting on wall street, this article gives a very good explanation on it. Americans blame the federal government more for the nation’s economic plight than they do the primary target of the Occupy Wall Street protests — big financial institutions. If you don’t know why people are protesting on wall street, this article gives a very good explanation on it.

]]> http://robertgoodis.com/blog/2011/11/04/when-texas-executes-one/#comment-12 business review Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:52:59 +0000 http://robertgoodis.com/blog/?p=25#comment-12 Field didn't have the votes of his high court colleagues to directly insert corporate personhood into law, so he exploited another aspect of the Reconstruction-era legal system to work the railroads' will. Congress had forbidden the Court from reviewing certain cases, (presciently) concerned that the justices would undermine the work that the legislature was doing, even the new constitutional amendments. As a compromise, Congress allowed justices to continue to sit occasionally on the circuit courts. When sitting on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in California, Field repeatedly wrote into his decisions that corporations were persons. Those decisions became precedents in the 9th Circuit, but nowhere else. Field didn’t have the votes of his high court colleagues to directly insert corporate personhood into law, so he exploited another aspect of the Reconstruction-era legal system to work the railroads’ will. Congress had forbidden the Court from reviewing certain cases, (presciently) concerned that the justices would undermine the work that the legislature was doing, even the new constitutional amendments. As a compromise, Congress allowed justices to continue to sit occasionally on the circuit courts. When sitting on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in California, Field repeatedly wrote into his decisions that corporations were persons. Those decisions became precedents in the 9th Circuit, but nowhere else.

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