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Daniel Dickens v. Alliance Analytical Laboratories, LLC, 111 P. 3d 889; 2005 Wash.App.433 Factual background and procedural posture
AAL is a L.L.C found by Ms. Anne Cote and Mr. Gary Lukehart in 2001. At the beginning, Ms. Anne Cote approached Mr. Gary Lukehart with a business plan to start a chemical company in Yakima, Washington and a disclaimed that she was very wealthy. AAL has two members, Ms. Cote and RSRT, L.L.C, which was found by Mr. Lukehart for the sole purpose as a member of AAL. Both Ms. Cote and Mr. Lukehart were named managers at AAL. Ms. Cote was a day-to-day operator of AAL. Mr. Lukehart asserted that he was more like a distant investor, which many of AAL employee disagreed.
In 2002, Ms. Cote started to ask Mr. Lukehart for AAL funding. RSRT loaned AAL $120,000 that year, …show more content…
The RCWA 49.52.050(2) of Washington prevents any employer or any agents of employer to willfully and intentionally withhold any wages of the employees or abuse the employee. If the employee or the agents of employee withhold any wages, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Another area is the Corporate and Business Organizations laws. Limited liability companies (LLC) are like corporation that they are considered a separate legal entity from the owners, even if there is one owner. Therefore, LLCs protect their owners from some legal responsibility. LLCs can have as much lost as it can and it generally will not affect the owners. LLCs owners are called members. LLCs’ members can be a real person or other LLCs. In general, a member can expect other member to act in good faith and are not responsible for other members’ illegal conducts. To make the LLCs’ members personally responsible, one must first pierce through the corporate veil by two separate issues. The first one is that the corporate was found to evade or violate a duty, and disregarding the corporate veil is necessary and required to prevent loss to other
Daniel Dickens v. Alliance Analytical Laboratories, LLC, 111 P. 3d 889; 2005 Wash.App.433 Factual background and procedural posture
AAL is a L.L.C found by Ms. Anne Cote and Mr. Gary Lukehart in 2001. At the beginning, Ms. Anne Cote approached Mr. Gary Lukehart with a business plan to start a chemical company in Yakima, Washington and a disclaimed that she was very wealthy. AAL has two members, Ms. Cote and RSRT, L.L.C, which was found by Mr. Lukehart for the sole purpose as a member of AAL. Both Ms. Cote and Mr. Lukehart were named managers at AAL. Ms. Cote was a day-to-day operator of AAL. Mr. Lukehart asserted that he was more like a distant investor, which many of AAL employee disagreed.
In 2002, Ms. Cote started to ask Mr. Lukehart for AAL funding. RSRT loaned AAL $120,000 that year, …show more content…
The RCWA 49.52.050(2) of Washington prevents any employer or any agents of employer to willfully and intentionally withhold any wages of the employees or abuse the employee. If the employee or the agents of employee withhold any wages, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Another area is the Corporate and Business Organizations laws. Limited liability companies (LLC) are like corporation that they are considered a separate legal entity from the owners, even if there is one owner. Therefore, LLCs protect their owners from some legal responsibility. LLCs can have as much lost as it can and it generally will not affect the owners. LLCs owners are called members. LLCs’ members can be a real person or other LLCs. In general, a member can expect other member to act in good faith and are not responsible for other members’ illegal conducts. To make the LLCs’ members personally responsible, one must first pierce through the corporate veil by two separate issues. The first one is that the corporate was found to evade or violate a duty, and disregarding the corporate veil is necessary and required to prevent loss to other