Filed: March 30, 2015
Opinion by: Shira A. Scheindlin
Summary: In
a case involving multiple jurisdictions, a federal court held that in the absence
of a federal question, the laws of the forum state should control, in this case
Pennsylvania. The court then applied Pennsylvania’s choice-of-law rules to hold
that the laws of the jurisdiction where the “targeted entity” is incorporated should
determine whether to piece the corporate veil. The defendant’s parent company
was incorporated in Delaware, but its Maryland subsidiary—the target of the
lawsuit—was formed in Maryland. Thus, under the court’s ruling, Maryland’s veil-piercing
laws should govern.
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