Long Island Care Center, Inc. v. Goodman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that veil piercing was not warranted despite significant integration between companies—including use of common web site, overlapping boards of directors and sharing of key employees—in the absence of evidence of misuse of corporate form
• using Knight test to determine whether commonly-owned entities could be considered joint employers for the purposes of counting employees for Title VII coverage
• using Knight test to de‐ termine whether commonly‐owned entities could be consid‐ ered joint employers for the purposes of counting employees for Title VII coverage
• “[Obtaining] important job skills . . . in the putative employer’s workplace . . . suggests an employment relationship.”
• declining to pierce the corporate veil where parent and subsidiary shared similar names, shared directors, shared certain employees’ services, used the same address on their tax returns, and shared a website
• noting creditors would not be confused despite the degree of integration because each corporation had, for example, separate bank accounts, filed separate tax returns, operated out of different locations, and were managed individually

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