>> [Sotomayor] said. “There could be an argument made that that was the court’s error to start with...[imbuing] a creature of state law with human characteristics.”
Humans and corporations have both unique and shared characteristics. But to suggest the corporation is imbued with human characteristics is inaccurate.
It’s a legal fiction (meaning a legal concept or construction) for a particular purpose, and I agree that she distorts the issue by saying that it has human characteristics.