USP Real Estate Inv. Trust v. Discount Auto Parts, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a parent corporation engaged in improper conduct by organizing and using a subsidiary corporation for the sole purpose of signing a lease to avoid any liabilities for rent and violating the terms of the lease
• subsidiary was deemed to be the alter ego of its parent where the subsidiary “never operated as a bona fide corporation” and “never opened a bank account or had any funds of its own”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).