Acadia
Partners, L. P. v. Tompkins,
759 So. 2d
732 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000).
A
plaintiff corporation sued the corporate directors of a defendant
corporation in the Ninth Judicial Circuit for Orange County, Florida.
The plaintiff sought to pierce the corporate veil of the defendant
corporation and recoup a thirty million dollar judgment against the
corporation by imposing liability upon the corporate directors based upon a variety of tort
theories. The plaintiff prevailed at the trial court level but was
awarded less than three million dollars, rather than the thirty million
dollars it sought.
Ms.
Lippincott represented the defendant corporate directors in the appeal
brought by the plaintiff corporation. In a very complex appeal involving
the doctrines of joint and several liability, setoff, res judicata,
and collateral estoppel, the twenty seven million dollar judgment
addition sought by the plaintiff corporation was denied.
