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Now Teed up at the High Court: Do Corporations Have Privacy Rights?

By: Ashby Jones In its Citizens United opinion from last year, the Supreme Court shot down certain campaign-finance limits. In so doing, the court essentially ruled that U.S. corporations have First Amendment free-speech rights. Might the court take another step toward imbuing corporations with all the rights guaranteed U.S. citizens? The high court agreed to hear a case involving AT&T to consider whether a corporation can challenge the release of government documents as an infringement of the company's privacy rights. AT&T wants the FCC to keep secret all the information it gathered from the company during an investigation into its participation in the federal E-Rate program, which helps schools and libraries get Internet access. Please click here to read this article from The Wall Street Journal blog.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).