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Ninth Circuit· 9/10/2010

United States v. Bennett

Citations

  • 621 F.3d 1131
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 18968
  • 2010 WL 3516438

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  • holding that the same argument “fail[s] to appreciate the distinction between the act of misapplying funds belonging to a financial institution and the act of diminishing the value of a financial institution’s assets”
  • banks are distinct legal entities 17 from their subsidiaries for the purposes of § 1344(2)
  • “[I]t 15 almost goes without saying that a parent corporation does not own the assets of its wholly-owned 16 subsidiary by virtue of that relationship alone.”
  • “It is a general principle of corporate law deeply ingrained in our economic and legal systems that a parent corporation . . . is not liable for the acts of its subsidiaries.” (quoting United States v. Bestfoods, 524 U.S. 51, 61 (1998))

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Judges: Kleinfeld, Wardlaw, Callahan

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