Green v. Ziegelman

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the Green I Court did not decide whether an independent action could be filed to pierce the corporate veil
• stating that whether the corporate veil should or should not be pierced is dependent on the totality of the circumstances
• observing that when an entity is operated as a mere instrumentality by its owner, a court will intervene to prevent an injustice
• explaining that “a loss is not unjust if the complainant had full knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the owner’s use of the entity and agreed to proceed despite that knowledge”
• rejecting an argument that the trial court could not pierce the corporate veil in the absence of finding that the individual caused the entity to commit the particular wrong at issue
• “[A] court sitting in equity may look through the veil of corporate structure—that is, pierce the corporate veil—to avoid fraud or injustice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).