In October 1998, the elected Council of the Township of Wayne, PA, passed into law an ordinance which prohibits corporations from doing business in Wayne which have a history of consistently violating regulatory law at the municipal, county, state, or federal level. The ordinance also prohibits corporations from doing business in Wayne which have on their board of directors any person who currently sits on the board of any other corporation which has a history of consistently violating regulatory law. Regulatory law includes environmental law, labor law, occupational safety and health law, tax law, consumer law, etc. When a corporation commits a string of serious violations of regulatory law, they are merely fined over and over again. There is no cumulative impact of the violations.
Many giant corporations have long histories of violating regulatory law.
The people of Wayne have decided to demand that corporate leaders be fully accountable for the actions of their corporate entities. In June 1998 in Alabama, circuit court judge William Wynn applied as a private citizen for a writ of Quo Warranto. The Alabama judge's writ was against the same four tobacco corporations that 46 states signed a deal with, demanding that Alabama revoke their charters to do business in the state. The four corporations have requested that the hearing be moved to the federal courts, where they expect they'll get a more favorable response. Mr. Lundgren refused to do his legal duty.