Incomplete Sentences: Hobby Lobby’s Corporate Religious Rights, the Criminally Culpable Corporate Soul, and the Case for Greater Alignment of Organizational and Individual Sentencing

Authors

Kenya J.H. Smith

Keywords

Sentencing reform -- Law & legislation, Sentencing guidelines (Criminal procedure) -- United States, Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States -- Law & legislation, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (Supreme Court case), Religious right -- United States

Abstract

The article explores the history and policies that explain the disparate sentencing treatment of organizations and individuals under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 and attendant sentencing guidelines. It reports the Supreme Court's recognition of a business corporation's religious rights in the case "Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc."

Repository Citation

Kenya J.H. Smith, Incomplete Sentences: Hobby Lobby’s Corporate Religious Rights, the Criminally Culpable Corporate Soul, and the Case for Greater Alignment of Organizational and Individual Sentencing, 77 La. L. Rev. (2016)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/lalrev/vol77/iss1/9