Ronald Alman, Etc. v. Jerome Danin

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that sole shareholders as officers of the corporation necessarily controlled prior litigation
• allowing veil piercing because owners undercapitalized subsidiary and dealt in bad faith with unions
• allowing corporate veil to be pierced to reach individual owners’ assets to enforce a pension plan that unfunded, shell corporation fraudulently negotiated
• finding “no litmus test in the federal courts governing when to disregard corporate form” in an “alter ego” case, but attempting to establish factors considered under federal law
• allowing veil piercing because owners undercapitalized subsidiary and dealt in bad faith with unions
• allowing plaintiffs to enforce judgment against officer shareholders, noting that the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) implicitly allowed the corporate form to be disregarded and officer shareholders to be held liable for a judgment against the corporation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

70 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Intergen N v. v. Grina
  First Circuit· 2003-09-22· cited 309×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1992-03-30· cited 222×
• Frank Lumpkin v. Envirodyne Industries, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-05-17· cited 167×
• Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Springfield Terminal Railway Co.
  First Circuit· 2000-04-05· cited 86×
• National Labor Relations Board v. Fullerton Transfer & Storage Limited, Inc. Richard E. Mills Carole F. Mills Sllim Real Estate Corporation
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-08-07· cited 70×
• Laborers' Pension Trust Fund v. Sidney Weinberger Homes, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1988-12-14· cited 67×
• United States v. Mottolo
  D. New Hampshire· 1988-08-29· cited 62×
• Kahala Royal Corp. v. Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2007-01-11· cited 60×
• The Massachusetts Laborers' Health and Welfare Fund v. Starrett Paving Corp., Peter Starrett
  First Circuit· 1988-05-26· cited 59×
• James T. Corrigan v. United States Steel Corporation Kobe Steel, Ltd.
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-03-05· cited 56×
• Trustees for Michigan Carpenters Council Health & Welfare Fund v. C.J. Rogers, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-05-10· cited 50×
• Crane v. Green & Freedman Baking Co.
  First Circuit· 1998-01-22· cited 44×
• Helen Debreceni, Etc. v. Graf Brothers Leasing, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1987-09-18· cited 40×
• Blair v. Infineon Technologies AG
  D. Delaware· 2010-06-29· cited 40×
• Thomas v. Peacock
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-11-04· cited 38×
• Greenblatt v. Prescription Plan Services Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1992-03-23· cited 37×
• Trustees of the Screen Actors Guild-Producers Pension & Health Plans v. NYCA, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-07-15· cited 35×
• Lowen v. Tower Asset Management, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1987-09-17· cited 33×
• Explosives Corporation of America v. Garlam Enterprises Corporation, (Two Cases) Explosives Corporation of America v. Garlam Enterprises Corporation
  First Circuit· 1987-06-03· cited 30×
• United States v. Kayser-Roth Corp.
  D. Rhode Island· 1989-10-11· cited 30×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 9,383×
• Allen v. McCurry
  Supreme Court· 1980-12-09· cited 4,909×
• Montana v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 3,633×
• Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-03· cited 2,250×
• Hansberry v. Lee
  Supreme Court· 1940-11-12· cited 1,544×
• First National City Bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior De Cuba
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-17· cited 608×
• Taylor v. Standard Gas & Electric Co.
  Supreme Court· 1939-02-27· cited 293×
• Bangor Punta Operations, Inc. v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-19· cited 212×
• Souffront v. La Compagnie Des Sucreries De Porto Rico
  Supreme Court· 1910-05-16· cited 150×
• Holmes v. Bateson
  First Circuit· 1978-08-11· cited 81×
• General Foods Corporation and Rich-Seapak Corporation v. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  First Circuit· 1981-05-13· cited 52×
• Town of Brookline v. Gorsuch
  First Circuit· 1981-12-18· cited 44×
• Capital Telephone Company, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Boris and Annette F. Squire, D/B/A Air Page, Intervenor
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-05-24· cited 37×
• Custom Paper Products Co. v. Atlantic Paper Box Co., Custom Paper Products Co. v. Atlantic Paper Box Co.
  First Circuit· 1972-11-09· cited 18×
• Contractors, Laborers, Teamsters & Engineers Health & Welfare Plan v. Hroch
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-03-13· cited 18×
• Laborers Clean-Up Contract Administration Trust Fund v. Uriarte Clean-Up Service, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-06-29· cited 9×