Manuel KAPLAN; Carol Kaplan; MK Investments, Inc., Appellants, v. FIRST OPTIONS OF CHICAGO, INC., Appellee

How courts have described this case

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• analogizing alter ego claims to fraud claims and thus requiring a heightened showing of clear and convincing evidence
• describing various “[e]vents that permit the corporate veil to be pierced”
• “alter ego status is determined by conduct of the parties that is material to the dispute at hand”
• plaintiffs did not waive objections to submitting claim to arbitration where they reasserted objection regularly during the arbitration
• “alter ego status is determined by conduct of the parties that is material to the dispute at hand”
• “In short, the evidence must show that the corporation’s owners abused the legal separation of a corporation from its owners and used the corporation for illegitimate purposes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).