racketeering-activity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-18 D&T Partners, L.L.C., Successor in Interest to ACET Venture Partners, Directly and Derivatively on Behalf of ACET Global, L.L.C., et al. v. Baymark Partners Management, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied h-j-inc-v-nw-bell-tel-co pattern-of-racketeering pattern-requirement predicate-acts racketeering-activity related-acts rico-statute single-scheme substantial-period substantial-period-of-time civil-rico-act
23-7144 Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a district court can sentence a defendant to life imprisonment for a RICO conspiracy conviction when the jury found the defendant did not agre…
23-6702 Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses Whether RICO incorporates state-law elements or only generic offense categories
22-6836 Robert Speed v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation Whether RICO is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
22-5260 David Perez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a sentencing court is bound by the state statutory maximum exposure for RICO violations based on state racketeering activities
21-6239 Robert A. Espinoza v. M. Segal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(a) conspiracy-definition crime-of-violence elements-clause gambling-activity gambling-offense racketeering-activity rico rico-statute unlawful-debt Is § 1962(c)'s 'Unlawful Debt' an alternative crime or a means of fulfilling the element of racketeering activity?
20-33 Grace International Assembly of God v. Gennaro Festa, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pattern-continuity predicate-acts racketeering-activity RICO rico-statute standing victim-definition wire-fraud Whether only the entity sustaining the greatest direct injury may be considered a victim for the purposes of determining if there is closed-or-open-en…
19-1125 Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of racket…
18-7726 Carlton Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a…
18-6948 William Gavidia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights common-heritage crimes-of-violence criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process enterprise indictment pattern-of-activity pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity Whether those of common heritage constitute an enterprise that should be indicted and tried together and any crimes of violence they commit constitute…
18-429 Joseph J. Germinaro, et al. v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-plaintiffs civil-procedure continuity continuity-requirement organized-crime ponzi-scheme racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act Is there a bright-line rule that the pattern of racketeering activity must extend beyond twelve months to satisfy continuity' under RICO?
18-11 Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b…