C.F. Trust, Inc. v. First Flight Ltd. Partnership

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

Attorneys’ fees is the sole remaining unresolved issue in this diversity declaratory judgment action. At issue specifically is whether an award of attorneys’ fees is allowable and warranted under Virginia law where, as here, plaintiffs won a declaration that defendants’ wrongful conduct warranted piercing the corporate veil in reverse.

I. 1

In November 1999, plaintiff C.F. Trust, Inc. 2 filed this action seeking a declaratory judgment that defendant First Flight Limited Partnership (“First Flight”) and other business entities were the alter egos of…