Keeping a lid on Pandora’s box: is the US government a person?

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Keeping a lid on Pandora’s box: is the US government a person?

February 28, 2019
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If the US Supreme Court agrees that the government is a person under the law, it could “open Pandora’s box in terms of unintended consequences”, one lawyer says. Others are split on which way SCOTUS will rule

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