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· 3/18/1999

James Papa v. Katy Industries, Inc. And Walsh Press Company, Inc., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Gjhsrt, Inc.

Citations

  • 166 F.3d 937

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that under certain circumstances a creditor may pierce the veil of one corporation \to sue a parent or other affiliate.\
  • observing that minimum employee requirements protect small businesses from the financial costs of compliance with employment laws
  • explaining that single employer test came from test used by National Labor Relations Board to resolve issues of affiliate liability, and declining to use that test under anti-discrimination statute
  • criticizing the integrated enterprise test on the ground that there is no way to reconcile the results of the prongs
  • explaining that where a parent directs the discriminatory act of which the employee of the subsidiary complains, “the parent, provided that the sum of its employees and those of the subsidiary employing the plaintiff exceeded the statutory minimum, would be the violator”
  • hiring other firms to perform services such as payroll does not subject those firms “to the antidiscrimination laws”

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Judges: Posner, Bauer, Evans

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