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DOE v. GELINEAU

Nos. 97-611-Appeal to 97-614-Appeal, 98-7-Appeal and 98-8-Appeal.

732 A.2d 43 (1999)

John DOE et al. v. Louis E. GELINEAU et al. (Three Cases). Joseph Roe v. Louis E. Gelineau et al. (Two Cases). Shawn Gill v. State of Rhode Island et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 11, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Conlon, Providence, for Plaintiff.

William T. Murphy, James T. Murphy, Elisabet C. Hayes, William Poore, Providence, for Defendants Louis E. Gelineau et al.

James E. Lee, Providence, for Defendants State of Rhode Island et al.

Stephen White, Warwick, Mary Hope Peterson, Providence, for Defendants Robert McIntyre et al.

Present LEDERBERG, BOURCIER, FLANDERS, and GOLDBERG, JJ.,

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

When it comes to piercing corporate veils, courts are loath to act like Vlad the Impaler.1 Indeed, the stakes are too high for courts regularly to disregard the separate legal status of corporations. Because a corporation is an incorporeal, "artificial creature" of the law, Cook v. American Tubing & Webbing Co., 28 R.I. 41, 49, 65 A. 641, 644 (1905), it constitutes "an artificial person distinct...

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