United States Fifth Circuit

Orders piercing a corporate veil and adding appellants as judgment debtors in a turnover proceeding are vacated to the extent the orders apply to appellants where the district court erred as: 1) a court may not use a proceeding under the Texas Turnover Statute as a vehicle to adjudicate the substantive rights of non-judgment third parties; and 2) appellees did not make the required showing under Texas law to establish that appellant-corporation was individual appellant's alter ego.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/28/2006
• Published 04/28/2006

Judges

• KING, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, BARKSDALE and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip Harry Kotsis (argued), Saleh & Associates, Dearborn, MI, for Movants-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marcella Ballard (argued), Proskauer Rose, New York City, Lisa H. Meyerhoff, Baker & McKenzie, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.