My Bread Baking Co. v. Cumberland Farms, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “common ownership of the stock of two or more corporations together with common management, standing alone, will not give rise to liability”
• suggesting that the decision to pierce the corporate veil depends on whether the “facts may be such as to permit the conclusion that an agency or similar relationship exists between the entities”
• limiting the application of the corporate disregard doctrine only to “rare particular situations in order to prevent gross inequity”
• discussing “circumstances in which one corporation, or person controlling it, may become liable for” another corporation’s acts or torts
• allowing veil-piercing for the purpose of “defeating fraud or wrong, or for the remedying of injuries”
• discussing “[t]he circumstances in which one corporation, or a person controlling it, may become liable for the acts or torts of an affiliate or a subsidiary under common control”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).