Hadar Leasing International Co. v. D.H. Overmyer Telecasting Co. (In Re D.H. Overmyer Telecasting Co.)

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• finding that companies were “merely the alter ego of [debtor] and were used as a front or mere conduit by him to carry out his fraudulent scheme.”
• finding that companies were “merely the alter ego of [debtor] and were used as a front or mere conduit by him to carry out his fraudulent scheme.”
• backdating of lease prior to bankruptcy was evidence of actual intent to defraud and injure creditors
• affirming bankruptcy court’s order against parties who were not originally parties, based on old Fed.R.Bankr.P. 771, but nowhere discussing sanctions against parties or non-parties
• “[a]n equity court ... has broad powers to fashion a remedy to redress a fraud committed upon [a plaintiff] and the court itself’
• no right to jury trial where litigant filed both claim and an adversary proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).