STATE EX REL. COOPER v. RIDGEWAY BRANDS

No. 408A07.

666 S.E.2d 107 (2008)

STATE of North Carolina ex rel. Roy COOPER, Attorney General of North Carolina v. RIDGEWAY BRANDS MANUFACTURING, LLC, a North Carolina corporation; Ridgeway Brands, Inc.; James C. Heflin; Fred A. Edwards; and Carl B. White.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 27, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Christopher G. Browning, Jr., Solicitor General, and Richard L. Harrison and Melissa L. Trippe, Special Deputy Attorneys General, for plaintiff-appellee/appellant.

Poyner & Spruill LLP, by J. Nicholas Ellis, Rocky Mount, for defendant-appellant/appellee Ridgeway Brands Manufacturing, LLC and James C. Heflin.


TIMMONS-GOODSON, Justice.

In this opinion, we address two issues. First, in a claim by the State seeking to pierce the corporate veil of a corporate defendant, is defendant's purported alter ego considered a new party? We hold that when the corporate defendant is the mere instrumentality, or alter ego, of the individual defendant, the individual is not considered a new party. Second, in this case did the State's complaint allege sufficient facts to support a cause...

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