California Court of Appeal· 4/15/2011

Leek v. Cooper

Citations

194 Cal. App. 4th 399
125 Cal. Rptr. 3d 56

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“There also must be 10 some conduct amounting to bad faith that makes it inequitable for [the defendant] to hide behind 11 the corporate form.”
“Under some circumstances a judgment against a 6 corporation may be amended to add a nonparty alter ego as a judgment debtor.”
“An allegation that a person owns all of the corporate stock and makes all of the management decisions is insufficient to cause the court to disregard the corporate entity.”
California courts look to § 3439.08’s bankruptcy code counterpart as persuasive authority
\A claim based upon an alter ego theory is not itself a claim for substantive relief It is a procedural device by which courts will disregard the corporate entity in order to hold the alter ego individual liable on the obligations of the corporation.\
“A claim based upon an alter ego theory is not itself a claim for substantive relief. It is a procedural device by which courts will disregard the corporate entity in order to hold the alter ego individual liable on the obligations of the corporation.”

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Judges: Blease

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