Herman Quarles v. Fuqua Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding no jurisdictional predicate where subsidiary, an operator of adult vocational training schools, did not engage in parent holding company’s “business of diversified corporate investments”
• describing “the alter ego doctrine for jurisdiction over a nonresident parent corporation when a subsidiary corporation has transacted business within the state and the parent itself has not”
• discussing both agency and alter ego theories and stating that “the presumption of corporate separateness in the absence of evidence of the parent corporation’s domination of the day-to-day business decisions of the subsidiary corporation”
• “Circumstances justify disregard of the corporate entity if separation of the two entities has not been maintained and injustice would occur to third parties if the separate entity were recognized.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).