Legal Opinion
Jay Steinberg, as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Ted's Plumbing, Inc. v. Helen Buczynski and Ted Buczynski
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 17, 1994No. 94-1648PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Ted’s Plumbing, Inc., a minuscule plumbing concern, owed $29,000 to the plumbers’ union pension fund for contributions that ERISA required Ted’s to make to the fund for one of the two or three plumbers that Ted’s employed. The fund obtained a judgment against Ted’s for treble this amount plus attorney’s fees; the total judgment was $111,000. Ted’s declared bankruptcy. The trustee brought an adversary proceeding against its shareholders, Ted Buczynski and his wife Helen, seeking to pierce the corporate veil and hold them personally liable for the corporation’s debt to the…
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