Newspapers and magazines have won cases over the years preventing corporations from exercising prior restraint on the publishing of information.
Legislation is needed to prevent corporations putting most forms of intangible capital on their balance sheets.
The litigation in the 1908 lawsuit, established precedent involving the state's right to prevent "corporations from practicing medicine."
Mr. Strange said the amendment has prevented corporations from entering the real estate market and forced others to stop feeding cattle.
These early state corporation laws were all restrictive in design, often with the intention of preventing corporations for gaining too much wealth and power.
Rather, what concerned Bush was the need to prevent corporations from adopting defenses to deter such attempted hostile takeovers.
The company law of some jurisdictions prevents corporations from distributing amounts to shareholders except as distribution of earnings.
Does Mr. Krugman want Congress to pass laws preventing corporations from earning profits?
Mr. Perot, a computer services executive, also favors weakening Federal anti-trust laws, which he believes prevent large corporations from competing effectively with foreign companies.
New York State regulations have prevented publicly owned corporations from providing medical care and skilled nursing; also, until recently, life-care programs were prohibited.