Brown v. Astro Holdings, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• determining that the scheme only foreclosed liability for alter egos of the statutory employer’s controlled groups, not alter egos of the employer itself
• finding that, “that the MPPAA permits a plaintiff to bring a claim for alter ego liability alleging that a defendant is the alter ego of the statutory employer”
• considering “the text of the relevant statutory provisions,” federal common law and “the purposes and policies behind ERISA and the MPPAA”
• collecting cases concerning the appellate courts that have followed Korea Shipping
• “The legislative history of the common control provisions indicates that Congress enacted them ‘in order to prevent businesses from shirking their ERISA obligations by fractionalizing operations into many separate entities.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).