Why and how are corporations “people”?
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Corporations are independent entities. So if the corporation makes a defective product, you can sue the company for damages, but not the worker that assembled the product of the engineer that designed it. This is a long-standing principle, which is not very controversial.
What raised some questions was a decision by the US Supreme Court that also protected “speech” by a company. In this way, companies earned the “right” to make political statements. You could sue the company, or it’s managers, and both were equally protected by the First Amendment. Historically the managers has always had such a protection, but extending it to the corporation was new.
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