United States v. Jon-T Chemicals, Inc., and Lewis M. Overton, Jr., Receiver for Jon-T Chemicals, Inc.

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• stressing that in applying the alter ego doctrine, courts must be “concerned with reality and not form”
• explaining that, “in contract cases, fraud is an essential element of an alter ego finding”
• explaining that undercapitalization is an important factor in alter-ego analysis
• looking “to the totality of the circumstances” in a “heavily fact-specific” inquiry regarding whether a subsidiary was the alter ego of its parent
• laundry list of 12 factors for judging lack of separateness under then-current Texas law
• laundry list of 12 factors forjudging lack of separateness under then-current Texas law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).