piercing the corporate veil in california

• United States v. Bestfoods, 524 U.S. 51 (1998)

... corporation both indirectly, when the corporate veil can be pierced under state law, and directly,... of the corporate form that will warrant piercing the corporate veil and disregarding the separate c...Aerojet created a wholly owned California subsidiary, Cordova Chemical Company (Cordova/Cali...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• SEC V HICKEY, (9th Cir. 2003)

... Court for the Northern District of California William H. Alsup, District Judge, Presiding Argued... John Hickey, Mamie Tang, and several corporate entities controlled by Hickey and Tang. This matte..., and a court may not engage in "reverse piercing" in the absence of an alter ego relationship. The ... the nature of piercing the corporate veil, the California Supreme Court has stated that "[i]...

• Federal Circuits

• Fount of mercy, city of blood: cultic anti-Judaism and the Pulkau Passion Altarpiece.

...'s progressive self-definition as "a corporate and sacred entity"--a sacred community from which ... he uses are described variously as piercing, stabbing, and/or cutting; . the host responds to ... forth the Real Presence hidden behind the "veil" of the consecrated host's externals (discussed be... Mark of Cain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981); idem, Outcasts: Signs of Otherness i...

• The Art Bulletin
• Vol. 87 Nbr. 4, December 2005

• Securities and Exchange Commission, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John A. Hickey, Defendant-Appellant, and Mamie Tang, Continental Capital Financial Group, Inc.; Continental Capital Income Fund Ii; Jm Regional, Inc.; Continental Capital Properties I, Inc.; Continental Capital Securities Group, Inc.; Continental Capital Investments, Inc.; Continental Capital Employees, Inc.; Continental Capital Secured Principal With Income Fund I; Continental Capital Private Equity Fund I; D.E. Frey & Company, Inc., Defendants. Securities and Exchange Commission, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John A. Hickey, Defendant, and John Hickey Brokerage, Third-Party Appellant., 322 F.3d 1123 (9th Cir. 2003)

... Court for the Northern District of California; William H. Alsup, District Judge, Presiding. D.C.... John Hickey, Mamie Tang, and several corporate entities controlled by Hickey and Tang. This matte..., and a court may not engage in "reverse piercing" in the absence of an alter ego relationship. The ... the nature of piercing the corporate veil, the California Supreme Court has stated that "[i]...

• Federal Circuits

• Overlitigating Corporate Fraud: An Empirical Examination

An empirical examination of some 700 corporate fraud lawsuits shows a significant overlap in the application of the variety of suits available, as well as pronounced differences in the effectiveness of the various kinds.

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 97-1, November 2011

• Eat Your Vegetables (or at Least Understand Why You Should): Can Better Warning and Education of Prospective Minority Owners Reduce Oppression in Closely Held Businesses?

This article suggests that statutes governing both corporations and limited liability companies should require all owners to read several warnings about the dangers of a lack of advance planning before starting a business, or before purchasing an equity interest in an existing closely held business. Part I of this article reviews the current landscape of available business forms and details the many ways in which the majority owners of a business can take advantage of the minority owners. Part I also reviews the many ways in which the minority owner could have protected himself -- if he had the foresight to do so. Part II then reviews the main statutory and judicial responses to the problem of minority owner oppression and discusses their inadequacy. After discussing some other suggesti...

... liability (at least outside of a "piercing the corporate veil" claim24). The worst that likel... consider the laws of the states of California, Delaware, and New York, as well as the Revised Un...

• Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 3, May 2009

• Ministry of Defense of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gould, Inc., Gould Marketing, Inc., Hoffman Export Corporation, Gould International, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. Ministry of Defense of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gould, Inc., Defendant, and Gould Marketing, Inc., Hoffman Export Corporation, Gould International, Inc., Defendants-Appellants., 969 F.2d 764 (9th Cir. 1992)

... Court for the Central District of California. Before: BRUNETTI, O'SCANNLAIN, and T.G. NELSON, C... substantive law on disregard of [the] corporate entity" has developed. Seymour v. Hull & Moreland ... advanced by Iran to show that the corporate veil must be pierced is slim. On two documents submitte...In any event, California law on piercing the corporate veil is substantially similar to the...

• Federal Circuits

• Are the courts developing a unique theory of limited liability companies or simply borrowing from other forms?

... an LLC as a "hybrid" combining certain corporate and partnership features. This characterization in... litigation, the business judgment rule, and veil piercing in which courts have applied corporate la...Cal. 2007) (applying California law to analysis of whether LLCs and other entity d...

• Suffolk University Law Review
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, June 2009

• Meyer v. Holley, 537 U.S. 280 (2003)

... personal vicarious liability upon a corporate officer or a "designated officer/broker." In rever... urging reversal were filed for the California Association of Realtors by June Babiracki Barlow a... owner in an appropriate case through a "'piercing of the corporate veil.' " United States v. Bestfoo...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Post-Arbitral Award Proceeding To Pierce Corporate Veil Correct Procedure But Fails On The Merits

... AND KINDRED PRODUCTS, ADOPTED BY THE CALIFORNIA DRIED FRUIT EXPORT ASSOCIATION EFFECTIVE MARCH 198... On the facts shown the Court found that piercing was inappropriate. www.cadwalader.com. The co...

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