Skouras v. Admiralty Enterprises, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the pursuit of a fishing expedition would be improper
• “more than a general statement is required in order for the Court to determine the propriety of a demand”
• prejudice can be found where a party dies while the other party sits on its claim
• “[M]ere control and even total ownership of one corporation by another is not sufficient to warrant the disregard of a separate corporate entity.”
• “Mere control and even total ownership of one corporation by another is not sufficient to warrant the disregard of a separate corporate entity.”
• “Absent a showing of a fraud or that a subsidiary is in fact the mere alter ego of the parent, a common central management alone is not a proper basis for disregarding separate corporate existence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).