Miller v. Coates

How courts have described this case

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

• “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.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).