Estate of Daily v. Lilipuna Associates

81 F.3d 167 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. ESTATE OF Sammy G. DAILY, Plaintiff, and Mary Lou Woo, Trustee of the Estate of Sammy G. Daily, Trustee-Appellant, v. LILIPUNA ASSOCIATES, a Hawaii limited partnership; Lilipuna Development Corporation; Title Guaranty Escrow Service, a Hawaiian corporation; Michael Daily; Terry Daily Wilcox, Defendants-Appellees. No. 95-16370. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Nov. 7, 1995. Decided April 4, 1996. Before: HUG, Chief Judge; THOMPSON and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 We must decide whether Hawaii state courts would allow the trustee of a bankrupt debtor's estate to bring a "reverse alter ego" or "reverse veil piercing" claim 1 against a corporation in a case where (1) the debtor was not a stockholder of that corporation when he filed for bankruptcy and (2) the actual stockholders may not be made parties to the suit because of the passage of the statute of limitations.…