Chicago District Council of Carpenters Pension Fund v. Sunshine Carpet Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• applying alter ego doctrine where one corporation was used by defendant as a front to receive subcontracting work for union employees and a nearly identical, second corporation was used to skirt pension fund contributions
• “[T]he purpose underlying the alter ego doctrine in the ERISA context is to prevent a corporate business from limiting its pension fund responsibilities by fractionalizing its business operations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).