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.