Does this bother anyone else?

A federal appeals court has struck down a New York State law that barred
Consolidated Edison from charging customers about $200 million for expenses
related to an 11-month shutdown of its Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Legal scholars say that no federal appellate court had ever stated that the
passage protected corporations as well as people. Some of the scholars argue
that the decision is a potentially significant restriction of government's
ability to penalize businesses for wrongdoing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/nyregion/07CONE.html

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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]