The Hobby Lobby ruling may have poked a hole in "the corporate veil."
Wade Goodwyn in NPR.
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Alan: Clearly, a corporation cannot have a set of religious beliefs unless those beliefs are imported from a particular person or group of persons. Since these individual persons -- as individuals -- are supposed to remain on "the dark side" of "the corporate veil," it appears that the importation of their personal religious beliefs into the anonymous corporation opens them to the kinds of personal liability that "corporate anonymity" was desinged to exempt. At bottom, "you can't have one without the other."
Either an impersonal, anonymous corporation has no religious belief,s or, if religious beliefs are ascribed to the corporation by way of "identifiable individuals," then those same individuals are no longer protected by the corporations "anonymous veil."
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