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Consortium News
February 17, 2018
Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 alleged members of a Russian troll farm is leading to calls for escalation with Russia, exacerbating tensions that are already at historic – and dangerous – lows, observes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone. U.S. empire loyalists are so close to tellingÃâà...
Daily Californian
January 30, 2018
Clearing House Association, LLC provides a valid recourse for future UC Berkeley students who may find themselves in Mora's predicament, namely Dartmouth v. Woodward. Despite being a case from 1819 pertinent to New Hampshire and the private Dartmouth College, the landmark contract law decisionÃâà...
The Dartmouth
October 5, 2017
Alexander Agadjanian. Alexander Agadjanian. It's a moving quote, no doubt, spoken before the U.S. Supreme Court by one of Dartmouth's most esteemed alumni. As counsel for the College in the case of Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Webster was said to have brought the courtroom to tearsÃâà...
Yale Daily News (blog)
September 19, 2017
The limitations on Dartmouth's tax exemption date back to the period following Dartmouth v. Woodward, a United States Supreme Court case in which the high court ruled that a charter constituted a contract and, therefore, could not be abrogated by a state. In a period of bitterness between state and school,Ãâà...
Colorado Springs Independent
June 6, 2017
File photo; A resident who tried to persuade City Council from approving the Strawberry Fields land swap in 2016. Now, the matter is in the courts. The dispute over the city open space known as Strawberry Fields is continuing with the filing of written arguments in the Colorado Court of Appeals.
YES! Magazine
December 12, 2016
Ferguson (in which the court declared that the 14th Amendment's “equal protection of the law” clause did not protect African Americans from racial discrimination), and Dartmouth v. Woodward (wherein the court made private corporations into sovereign powers), to the dozens of cases recognizing corporateÃâà...
The Guardian
April 28, 2015
The US supreme court appeared to be heading toward limited national recognition of same-sex marriages at minimum on Tuesday, as justices expressed concern about forcing all states to allow them but remained sympathetic to the argument that weddings held elsewhere should be upheld.
The Nation.
May 29, 2014
But the foundation for corporate personhood was laid in Dartmouth v. Woodward before the Civil War for practical reasons: because a corporation is a collective of people doing business together, its constituent persons should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act as such. This decisionÃâà...
AnnArbor.com
November 29, 2012
"It's small college, and yet there are those who love it" — Daniel Webster; Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 518 (1819). Seasoned Cit. Fri, Nov 30, 2012 : 3:50 a.m.. Wonder if there is a way we could get the Athletic Dept to attach the UM brand to our executiveÃâà...
