Crest Tankers, Inc., and Clayton Tankers, Inc. v. National Maritime Union of America

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• remanding for consideration of alter ego doctrine because collateral estoppel not available on basis of findings in prior proceedings
• preexisting company held to have been turned into an alter ego; the alter ego, however, had been bought and was being run by the same holding company that owned the other two entities in question
• “an employer which has not signed a labor contract may be so closely tied to a signatory employer as to bind them both to the agreement”
• “a critical part of the inquiry into alter ego status ... is whether the employers acted out of anti-union sentiment or to avoid a labor contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).