United States Ninth Circuit

In an action for a declaratory judgment in a labor dispute that Defendant and a corporation were alter egos, summary judgment for Defendant is affirmed, where the alter ego doctrine does not apply "in reverse" where a non-union employer creates a union company because the non-union employer has no collective bargaining obligations to avoid.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2008
• Decided 03/10/2009
• Published 03/10/2009

Judges

• BYBEE, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALFRED T. GOODWIN, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ellen Greenstone, Rothner, Segall, & Greenstone, Pasadena, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Strumreiter and Barbara J. Klass, Brown, Brown, & Klass, Agoura Hills, CA, for defendant-appellee Rodin & Co., Inc., Gregory J. Khougaz, Santa Monica, CA, for defendant-appellee Southern California Painting, Inc.