The Bush Supreme Court at work.

The Supreme Court yesterday strictly limited the ability of investors who lost money through corporate fraud to sue other businesses that may have helped facilitate the crime, a decision that could doom stockholder efforts to recover billions of dollars lost in Enron and other high-profile cases.

In a victory for business interests in a case they had identified as their most important of the year, the court ruled 5 to 3 to protect corporate partners such as vendors, consultants and others from liability if stockholders cannot show they relied on deception from such “secondary actors” in making their investment decisions.

We just keep making it easier for Business’ to steal from the common man. A country “by corporations for corporations” sounds more appropriate now.