Landry v. Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• inquiring whether “if the acts are treated as those of the corporation alone ... an inequitable result [will] follow”
• veil-piercing is appropriate “when the incentive value of limited liability is outweighed by the competing value of basic fairness to parties dealing with the corporation”
• describing this principle as applying not only to shareholders, but also to “other controlling individuals”
• describing this principle as applying not only to shareholders, but also to “other controlling individuals”
• \[F]ormalities are [ ] an excellent litmus of the extent to which the individuals involved actually view the corporation as a separate being.\
• “[W]hen particular circumstances merit ... courts may look past a corporation’s formal existence to hold shareholders or other controlling individuals liable for ‘corporate’ obligations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).