racketeering-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7451 Walston Owen v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute jury-finding racketeering-act rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement substantive-crime Whether a defendant convicted of RICO conspiracy under 18 USC § 1962(d) is subject to enhanced sentencing under § 1963(a) based on a jury finding of a…
18-8217 Marvin Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process enterprise enterprise-membership fair-trial jury-instructions racketeering racketeering-act violent-crime Whether evidence supporting a conviction of violent crime in aid of racketeering must demonstrate the defendant was a member of the alleged enterprise
18-892 Mark N. Kirsch v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coercion due-process extortion extortion-statute property-transfer racketeering-act racketeering-conspiracy scheidler-precedent scheidler-v-now sekhar-precedent transferable-property union-contract Whether pressuring a construction contractor to enter into a union contract meets the definition of generic extortion such that a racketeering act pre…