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From the supplier: The problem with RICO is that the US Supreme Court opted for a broad reading of the pattern requirement for civil RICO claims in its 1989 ruling in H.J., Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., in which customers of Northwestern Bell sued the phone company on claims that it had bribed state regulators. The trial court and the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled the acts were not part of a patterned scheme. The Supreme Court reversed the 8th Circuit with a ruling that any two predicate acts established a pattern of racketeering if they satisfied the "relatedness" and "continuity" tests.
Citation DetailsTitle: Spiraling out of control: ramifications of reading RICO broadly.
Author: Neil Feldman
Publication:Defense Counsel Journal (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1998
Publisher: International Association of Defense Counsels
Volume: 65
Issue: n1
Page: 116-123
Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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