American Express Travel Related Services Co. v. Berlye

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Clearly, [the defendants] did not create a separate entity by merely registering a fictitious name.”
• guaranty enforceable where change in d/b/a designation did not alter fact that guaranty named the corporation as the agent
• \The use of d/b/a or `doing business as' to associate a tradename with the corporation using it does not create a legal entity separate from the corporation but is merely descriptive of the corporation.\
• “The use of a trade name does not create a separate legal entity, and if one undertakes an obligation in a fictitious or trade name, the obligation is his own individually.”
• “The use of d/b/a or ‘doing business as’ to associate a tradename with the corporation using it does not create a legal entity separate from the corporation but is merely descriptive of the corporation.”
• “The use of d/b/a or ‘doing business as’ to associate a tradename with the corporation using it does not create a legal entity separate from the corporation but is merely descriptive of the corporation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).