Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 280: Listen and Learn -- Piercing the Corporate Veil
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 120: Listen and Learn -- Piercing the Corporate Veil
Normally, a business entity is considered a legal person separate and apart from its individual owners. But when the entity is used by an owner to perpetrate a fraud, circumvent a statute, or accomplish some other wrongful...more
Nothing triggers nerdy excitement within the legal community quite like a freshly decided case that claims to address an issue “which appears to be a question of first impression.” This is the court’s way of proclaiming in...more
The Fourth District Court of Appeal's decision in Burkhalter Kessler Clement & George LLP v. Hamilton (Cal. Ct. of Appeal Case No. G054337 (Jan. 8, 2018) reminded me of the opening lines of Carole King's 1971 hit song Sweet...more
New York is a key venue for the enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, and two recent decisions concerning post-judgment discovery demonstrate that while courts will apply their execution and garnishment authority with...more
What happens when you sue someone who is judgment proof? One solution may be to ask the trial court to amend the judgment to add additional judgment debtors. Now, it may seem unusual to be able to add judgment debtors who...more
Yesterday, the California Court of Appeal found substantial evidence in the record to uphold a trial court’s decision to add an affiliated corporation as a judgment debtor under the “single enterprise” theory. Toho-Towa Co.,...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has refused to enforce a judgment against an entity with ties to the judgment debtor, finding that the judgment creditor had not adequately pled an alter ego claim....more