In Re American Honda Motor Co. Dealerships Litig.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “a mailing need only be a necessary step in furtherance of a scheme, and need not be fraudulent in and of itself’
• finding that the “allegation that the various Honda entities use consolidated financial statements and have interlocking directorates, taken as true, would be insufficient to justify piercing the corporate veil”
• plaintiffs’ shorthand method for aggregating the corporate defendants could not overcome the presumption of separate legal personality
• \Th[e] cases reveal an underlying distinction between acting in an advisory professional capacity (even if in a knowingly fraudulent way) and acting as a direct participant in [an enterprise's] affairs.\
• “Th[e] cases reveal an underlying distinction between acting in an advisory professional capacity (even if in a knowingly fraudulent way) and acting as a direct participant in [an enterprise’s] affairs.”

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