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United Dominion Industries, Inc. v. United States

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United Dominion Industries, Inc. v. United States
Decided June 4, 2001
Full case nameUnited Dominion Industries, Inc. v. United States
Citations532 U.S. 822 (more)
Holding
An affiliated group's product liability loss must be figured on a consolidated, single-entity basis; a conglomerate cannot aggregate the product liability loss of its subsidiaries and report that sum as its product liability loss.
Court membership
Chief Justice
William Rehnquist
Associate Justices
John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
MajoritySouter, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsberg, Breyer
ConcurrenceThomas
DissentStevens
Laws applied
Internal Revenue Code of 1954

United Dominion Industries, Inc. v. United States, 532 U.S. 822 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that an affiliated group's product liability loss must be figured on a consolidated, single-entity basis; a conglomerate cannot aggregate the product liability loss of its subsidiaries and report that sum as its product liability loss.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ United Dominion Industries, Inc. v. United States, 532 U.S. 822 (2001).
  2. ^ Leatherman, Don; Leishner, Glenn (2002). "Affiliated and Related Corporations". The Tax Lawyer. 55 (4): 1016–17. ISSN 0040-005X.
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