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Released: October 25, 2011

US Airways could add some humanity to its ‘corporate personhood’

Source: David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)

Businesses enjoy the legal status of “corporate personhood.” It gives them a constitutional right to free speech, among other perks normally reserved for human beings.

So if corporations are people too, why do they sometimes have to be such schmucks?

Sheila Seberg, 72, of Newport Beach found herself asking this question after US Airways treated her with stunning heartlessness when she was forced to cancel a flight because her husband had suffered a major heart attack.

Refund the $564.30 round-trip ticket price? Forget it. The airline wouldn’t even consider it. The best it could muster was extending the ticket for a few months — as long as Seberg paid a $150 fee for a changed booking.

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