Ma v. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.

How later courts describe this case

• noting in dicta that the pretrial resolution of the qualified immunity defense may be thwarted by a factual dispute
• qualified immunity should be decided by court as matter of law when facts are undisputed
• “[D]is-solution, followed by the three-year survival period, terminates the corporation’s comatose condition and renders the corporation legally dead. Not even the important policy goals underlying CERCLA can resurrect [the defendant].”
• civil conspiracy is an intentional tort