{"id":3967,"date":"2014-07-25T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:53:13","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-rules-case-piercing-corporate-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-case-piercing-corporate-veil\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Rules on Case of Piercing the Corporate Veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case involving a default judgment in the amount of $421,582 against an Illinois corporation, Mama Gramm\u2019s Bakery requested that a Cook County judge <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piercing_the_corporate_veil\">pierce the corporate veil<\/a> of Silver Fox Pastry and put the liability on Haitham Abuzir. Abuzir was never a director, officer, shareholder or employee of the corporation, Silver Fox.<\/p>\n<p>In the attempt to pierce the veil, Mama Gramm\u2019s alleged that Abuzir funded Silver Fox, \u201cmade all business decisions\u201d and \u201cexercised ownership control over the corporation to such a degree that separate personalities of the corporation and defendant did not exist.\u201d The trial judge dismissed the complaint for failing to state a cause of action against Abuzir. The Illinois Appellate court reversed that decision and provided an opinion on the issue of \u201cwhether the veil may be pierced to reach non-shareholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The underlying case that resulted in a default judgment was a trade secret case. The appellate court discussed the ways to create and organize a sham corporation. \u201cIn some instances, the wrongdoer neither holds stock nor serves in an official capacity. Making officer, director or shareholder status a pre-requisite to veil-piercing elevates form over substance and is therefore contrary to veil-piercing&#8217;s equitable nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-case-piercing-corporate-veil\/#more-3967\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case involving a default judgment in the amount of $421,582 against an Illinois corporation, Mama Gramm\u2019s Bakery requested that a Cook County judge pierce the corporate veil of Silver Fox Pastry and put the liability on Haitham Abuzir. Abuzir was never a director, officer, shareholder or employee of the corporation, Silver Fox. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,49,79,83,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breach-of-contract","category-business-litigation","category-copyright-litigation","category-corporate-law","category-limited-liability-companies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Rules on Case of Piercing the Corporate Veil &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a case involving a default judgment in the amount of $421,582 against an Illinois corporation, Mama Gramm\u2019s Bakery requested that a Cook County judge\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-case-piercing-corporate-veil\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Rules on Case of Piercing the Corporate Veil &#8212; 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