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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6408 Lynette Cooper v. City of Baltimore, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending IFP chemical-battery civil-rico due-process judicial-review pro-se-litigant witness-tampering 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's Due Process rights by affirming the District Court's sua sponte dismissal of a detailed civil RIC…
25A716 Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Tenth Circuit 2025-12-18 Application civil-rico documentary-evidence first-amendment fraud-claims historical-representations religious-organization Whether the First Amendment precludes civil courts from adjudicating fraud claims against a religious organization based on allegedly misleading histo…
25-395 Eran Rubinstein, et al. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived accrual-rule civil-rico federal-claims injury-discovery legal-procedure statute-of-limitations 1. The first question presented is whether civil RICO is subject to a "separate accrual" rule whereby a new claim accrues, triggering a new four-yea…
25-27 Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendants failed to respond, violating due process …
24-1302 MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute Whether physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening cause in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs,…
24A170 Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et al. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-13 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-rico federal-question financial-institution investment-fraud summary-order Whether a civil RICO claim can be sustained against a financial institution based on alleged fraudulent investment practices involving complex interna…
23-365 Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn Second Circuit 2023-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to 'business or property by reason of' the defendant's acts for purposes of civil…
22-1159 Troy Newman v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied civil-rico false-identification interstate-commerce pattern-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering-activity predicate-acts proximate-cause rico-statute undercover-investigation Whether Respondents failed to establish a pattern of RICO predicate acts
22-381 Ashot Yegiazaryan, aka Ashot Egiazaryan v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-24 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) business-reputation civil-rico court-judgment domestic-injury foreign-injury foreign-plaintiff intangible-property legal-test patent Does a foreign plaintiff state a cognizable civil RICO claim when it suffers an injury to intangible property, and if so, under what circumstances
22-5395 Michael Gorrio v. Correctional Officer Francis, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rico civil-rico-conspiracy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review well-pleaded-facts Did the appellant's amended complaint ECF 43 present substantial 'well pleaded facts,' as to plausibly state a claim and support the claim to overcome…
21-1608 McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix Second Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c…
19-901 Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec…
19-6829 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal due-process,civil-rights,access-to-court,federal-procedure,recusal,civil-rico
19-695 Dean Browning Webb, et al. v. Deere Credit, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response Waived beck beck-v-prupis civil-liability civil-rico co-conspirator-liability conspiracy-law mediate-causation pinkerton-doctrine procedural-sanctions rico-1962-d salinas salinas-v-united-states Does the Pinkerton Doctrine, Salinas v. United States, and Beck v. Prupis apply to the imposition of civil RICO § 1962(d) co-conspirator liability?
19-533 River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment Whether the holding in Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. that 'ambiguous' circumstantial evidence does not support an inferen…
19-390 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice Whether district court orders denied petitioner's Civil RICO rights,
18-1557 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rico copyright-act copyright-infringement creative-rights due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property licensing plagiarism Whether literary works are protected under copyright law similarly to music sampling
18-1489 Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the ba…
18-890 David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario Second Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim
18-230 Robert Allen Richards, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder canon-law child-support civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process paternity-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's case under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in a civil RICO paternity fraud lawsuit involving f…