piercing the veil of corporate fiction

• Southeast Texas Inns, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Prime Hospitality Corporation, Defendant-Appellee., 462 F.3d 666 (6th Cir. 2006)

...-Ridge, seeking to pierce May-Ridge's corporate veil in order to hold Prime liable for May-Ridge's... to warrant the extreme measure of piercing May-Ridge's corporate veil. On January 7, 2005, th..., "[t]he principle of piercing the fiction of the corporate veil is to be applied with great ...

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• The case against vicarious jurisdiction.

... to beg the question to be decided." (5) Corporate presence, he observed, "can be manifested only by ... especially, the corporate law doctrine of veil piercing--it may be misused in a manner that produ..., the foreign corporation's consent (fictional or otherwise) could not be predicated on the grant...

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review
• Vol. 152 Nbr. 3, January 2004

• LM Insur Corp v. Spaulding Enter, (7th Cir. 2008)

... can bring a claim to pierce the corporate veil of the debtor corporation in a new cause of ... such that an adherence to the fiction of separate corporate existence would likely produ...Defendants also argue that because piercing the corporate veil is equitable in nature, given t...

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• International Financial Services Corporation, an Illinois Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Chromas Technologies Canada, Inc., a Canadian Corporation, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, and Didde Corporation, Et Al., Defendants, Cross-Appellees., 356 F.3d 731 (7th Cir. 2004)

... have decided whether to pierce the corporate veil under an alter ego theory and that the damage... a right to a jury trial on the issue of piercing the corporate veil. Our review of this issue of la... are such that adhering to the fiction of a separate corporate existence would promote in...

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• Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Pension, Health Benefit and Educational Funds v. Andrew Lutyk, Appellant., 332 F.3d 188 (3rd Cir. 2003)

... the record of a non-jury trial justified piercing the corporate veil of the American Elevator Compan... corporation is little more than a legal fiction." Pearson, 247 F.3d at 485. While "piercing of the...

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• The Internalization of Corporate Patent Infringement: Challenging the Federal Circuit's Approach to Corporate-Participant Liability*

A U.S. utility patent confers on its holder the limited right to exclude others from practicing the patent's claimed subject matter. This right is guaranteed by granting patentees a broad right to pursue a federal civil action to recoup the lost economic benefit of an infringed invention. However, while patentees can, and often do, bring infringement actions against corporate defendants, their ability to join the corporate participants-the owners and agents of the corporation-has been seriously limited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Such a narrow view of corporate-participant liability has little basis in traditional principles of agency and corporate law. This Note illustrates the Federal Circuit's deviations from the more conventional approach and highlights som...

...- a doctrine colloquially referred to as "piercing the corporate veil."42. In addition to situations ... whether to set aside the corporate fiction and hold the owners personally liable for the defi...

• Texas Law Review
• Vol. 88 Nbr. 1, November 2009

• Brunswick Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Harry Waxman and Evelyn Waxman, Harry Waxman, Benne Katz, Martin C. Barrell, as Executors of the Estate of Sydney W. Waxman, Deceased, Said Harry Waxman and Sydney W. Waxman, Being Sued Individually and as Co-Partners Doing Business as Turnpike Lanes, Pike Lanes, Inc., and Waxman Construction Corp., and Jack Verschleiser, as Guardian Ad Litem of Defendant Harry Waxman, in Said Representative Capacity Only, Defendants-Appellees (Two Cases)., 599 F.2d 34 (2nd Cir. 1979)

... The theory of the plaintiff is that the corporate veil of the Construction Corp. should be pierced a... on the law of New York in the field of "piercing the corporate veil" and the disregard of the corpoorate fiction. New York law in this area is hardly as clear as a...

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• State ex rel. Petro v. Mercomp, Inc., (Ohio 2006)

SUMMARY JUDGMENT, SOLE SHAREHOLDER, CORPORATE VEIL, HARM, STRICT LIABILITY, R.C. 3734, EQUITABLE REMEDY, GROUNDWATER DETECTION, INJUNCTION, IN CAMERA INSPECTION.

... erred granting summary judgment and piercing its corporate veil, by finding individual liabilit... natural persons who compose it, is a mere fiction, introduced for convenience in the transaction of ...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Kelley v. Austell Building Supply, Inc., 164 Ga. App. 322, 297 S.E.2d 292 (1982)

Judgment affirmed. Banke and Birdsong, JJ., concur.

... defendant individually and not in his corporate capacity. Further, the corporate fiction (the pierrcing of the corporate veil) may be disregarded where the defendant has over e...

• Georgia Court Of Appeals

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Colonial Realty Company, Jonathan Googel, and Benjamin Sisti, Defendants-Appellees., 966 F.2d 57 (2nd Cir. 1992)

... consolidation of partnership, corporate, and individual debtors, estates); In re Safren, 6... springs from the equitable doctrine of piercing the corporate veil, which authorizes a court to diisregard the corporate fiction when it shields or advances fraud, and therefore s...

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