State Legislatures May Be Next Battleground For Post-Citizens United Shareholder Protection Proposals

State Legislatures May Be Next Battleground For Post-Citizens United Shareholder Protection Proposals: After the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in the Citizens United v. FEC that corporations could spend unlimited funds from their corporate treasuries on independent political expenditures, some in Congress sought to give shareholders a say in deciding what what expenditures to make. While the Shareholder Protection Act of 2010, a bill by Rep. Mike Capuano [...]/p