Crawforth v. Wheeler (In Re Wheeler)

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that, although the trustee attempted to pierce the corporate veil to reach the assets of a non-debtor entity controlled by the debtor, the trustee’s approach was tantamount to a request for substantive consolidation
• noting that an action to pieree the corporate veil is not an independent cause of action, but rather is a means of imposing liability for an underlying cause of action
• “‘[R]esort to consolidation should not be 8 Pavlovian, but...should be used sparingly,’ with a heightened 9 degree of due process and due consideration for the harm or 10 economic prejudice that such a remedy would occasion.”

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