
Originally Posted by
spqrzilla
You are confused. Your first sentence has nothing to do with your question. Nothing. There are no "new court laws" that do any such thing. You should not listen to leftie tripe about the Citizens United decision, it was just about the First Amendment.
A business that is an entity with limited liability like a corporation or a limited liability company (LLC) insulates its shareholders/members from liability for the company's debts if and only if the shareholders / members did not separately promise to be liable (like signing a guarantee for a loan to the company or guarantee a lease) and/or so long as the shareholders / members are not separately liable for the debt such as being joint tortfeasors (e.g. get into an accident while driving the company car) and so long as they did not do something else to pierce the corporate shield (talk to your attorney about this when you form a corporation or limited liability company ... or you used Legal Zoom and got no legal advice? Tough titties).