Daniels v. Elks Club of Hartford and the Human Rights Commission

Reiber, C.J.,

¶ 98. dissenting. In holding that members of the Club may be personally liable for a judgment against the Club, the majority disregard the settled rule — embodied in statute and endorsed by the weight of authority — that reinstatement of a suspended corporate charter revives the traditional corporate shield “as if the administrative dissolution had never occurred,” 11B V.S.A. § 14.22(c), and thus relieves corporate officers and shareholders from personal liability for acts undertaken on behalf of the corporation during the period of suspension. The majority compounds the error by…