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Racketeering
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Tobacco Law Blog
Big Tobacco Loses Appeal in Racketeering Case
By Troutman Pepper Locke Tobacco Practice
A federal appellate court recently rejected the tobacco industry’s argument that restrictions imposed as part of a 2006 judgment should be set aside because Congress, in 2009, passed a law…
Employment & Labor
Fourth Circuit Finds Insufficient Allegations To Support Class Claims In Workplace Class Action RICO Claim
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Chris Palamountain In a recent unanimous decision – Walters, et al. v. McMahen, et al., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 13682 (4th Cir. July 5, 2012) - the…
New Jersey Law Blog
Commercial Landlords and Frivolous Lawsuits: Not every suit is a “Federal Case”
The Third Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of a RICO suit brought by a disgruntled residential tenant against a residential landlord. See, Bolmer v. Connelly Properties, Inc., 2012 U.S. App.…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Sodexo Settles RICO Action Against SEIU
Hunton & Williams client Sodexo Inc. announced last week that it has settled its civil RICO lawsuit against the Service Employees International Union, marking the end of the SEIU's contentious…
Litigation & Trial
Why CSX Railroad Sued Successful Asbestos Lawyers For Racketeering
As Rich Lord reported at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The quarry has turned on the hunter in a West Virginia courtroom, and now one of the nation's biggest transportation companies is…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Court Permits RICO Suit Against SEIU
The Blog of Legal Times reports today that a Virginia federal judge has just refused to dismiss a RICO suit brought by Sodexo against the SEIU for the union's "corporate…
Corporate & Securities Law Blog
Second Circuit Holds That the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 Bars All RICO Claims Based Upon Alleged Acts of Securities Fraud
By John Stigi
In MLSMK Investment Co. v. JP Morgan Chase & Co., No. 10-3040-cv, 2011 WL 2640579 (2d Cir. July 7, 2011), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Louisiana Federal District Court Dismisses RICO Claims Against BP
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The story is reported in JURIST here.--PHM
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Verizon Wireless Files RICO Suit against Mobile Marketers, Alleges Deception and Fraud in Evasion of MMA Guidelines Requirements for Short Code Campaigns
Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, filed a lengthy complaint on March 7, 2011, against mobile marketing entities that have conducted short code marketing campaigns on its network. The…
Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
Enrico Ponzo Headed To Boston – So How Important Is A Changed Life?
Reputed Boston mobster Enrico Ponzo is leaving Idaho in the custody of the United States Marshal's Service, headed to Beantown to face charges arising out of his life before Marsing.…