Summary
**Topics:** Title VII – employer definition (15-employee threshold); corporate veil piercing for employee aggregation; affiliated entities; Wisconsin veil-piercing law. **Holding:** Affirmed summary judgment for defendants. Applecars, LLC had fewer than 15 employees and was not an "employer" under Title VII. Plaintiff failed to show grounds to pierce the corporate veil to aggregate employees of affiliated dealerships; operational integration and common ownership alone are insufficient where corporate formalities (separate accounts, records, tax filings) are maintained.
Holdings
- The corporate veil of the affiliated dealerships cannot be pierced to aggregate employees for Title VII coverage because the defendants maintained corporate formalities and there was no evidence of fraud or misuse of corporate form.
Questions Presented
- Whether the court should pierce the corporate veil of the affiliated dealerships to aggregate their employees for Title VII coverage
Disposition
affirmed
Cases Cited (6)
- Papa v. Katy Industries, Inc., 166 F.3d 937 (7th Cir. 1999)(followed)
- Bridge v. New Holland Logansport, Inc., 815 F.3d 356 (7th Cir. 2016)(followed)
- Hansen v. Fincantieri Marine Grp., LLC, 763 F.3d 832 (7th Cir. 2014)(cited)
- Fontana Builders, Inc. v. Assurance Co. of Am., 882 N.W.2d 398 (Wis. 2016)(followed)
- Parker v. Scheck Mechanical Corp., 772 F.3d 502 (7th Cir. 2014)(distinguished)
- Wiebke v. Richardson & Sons, Inc., 265 N.W.2d 571 (Wis. 1978)(distinguished)
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