The "Opening Case Round 2" involving the Federal Trade Commission and the Hobby Lobby case discussed whether the people making decisions at Hobby Lobby can benefit from corporate rights flowing to the people behind the corporate veil.

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Modern law holds that the corporate veil is a way to protect corporate officers from personal liability, and frequently rule that the legal fiction of a corporate "veil" creates an entity that is separate from the founders. However, in Hobby Lobby, the United States Supreme Court said that, when the law defines the rights and duties of a corporation, it is actually defining the rights and duties of the people behind those corporations. They are the ones who must carry out corporate duties and who benefit from corporate rights. Thus, when the corporation is given property rights, those property rights really belong to the people.

The "Opening Case Round 2" Involving the Federal Trade Commission