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29 Nov 2010, 5:00 am
The article -- Engstrom, Run of the Mill Justice, 22 Georgetown J. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 2:03 pm
Securities Litigation Reform Act Barred RICO Claims Against Tax Shelter SchemeThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) barred RICO claims against a law firm that allegedly participated in a scheme to promote an illegitimate tax shelter, the U.S. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 9:30 am
Certification of RICO Class of Prescription Drug Purchasers ReversedThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.A district court abused its discretion by certifying a class of labor unions and insurance companies that allegedly paid too much for the prescription drug Zyprexa, the U.S. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 9:16 am
Conduct of Venezuelan Officials Not Subject to Civil RICO ClaimsThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.A Venezuelan businessman and his investment company could not pursue civil RICO claims against Venezuelan government officials and their associates because the action exceeded the territorial reach of federal RICO law, the federal district court in New York City has ruled.The businessman alleged that the defendants had him unjustly… [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 1:40 pm
Tax Lien Bidding Scheme Would Not Be Civil RICO ViolationThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.Tax lien purchasers in Cook County, Illinois, were not liable for RICO violations that competitors asserted after the defendants allegedly conspired to violate the county’s “single simultaneous bidder rule” (SSBR) in an effort to win a greater share of the tax liens that the county sold at an annual tax auction, the federal… [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 12:52 pm
Brokers, Insurers Did Not Constitute Hub-and-Spoke RICO EnterprisesThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.Purchasers of commercial and employee-benefit insurance policies failed to sufficiently allege a series of “hub-and-spoke” RICO enterprises comprising brokers and insurers that allegedly conspired to participate in unlawful and deceptive “allocation” schemes to steer unwitting purchasers from the brokers to… [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 2:56 pm
Tobacco Firm Asks High Court to Reconsider Review of Extraterritorial Reach of RICOThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (BATCo) has petitioned the U.S. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 10:10 pm
., sequel] Unlinked back in February: “Doctors cut back hours when risk of malpractice suit rises, study shows” [Eric Helland and Mark Showalter, JLE, Brigham Young release via Bob Dorigo Jones] Also unlinked from back when: thanks for kind mention to Mark Herrmann in “Memoirs of a Blogger,” PDF [Litigation mag courtesy WSJ Law Blog, Drug and Device Law] Ditto: Nora Freeman Engstrom on accident-law settlement mills, “Run-of-the-Mill… [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 2:27 pm
$12 Million Damage Award Sustained in RICO Insurance Fraud SuitThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.Health care providers could not receive post-trial relief from a jury verdict that found them liable for RICO violations, the federal district court in Philadelphia has ruled.The jury awarded complaining insurers more than $4 million in compensatory damages ($12.1 million after trebling) for participating in a racketeering scheme to… [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 2:08 pm
High Court Limits Scope of “Honest Services Fraud,” Restricting Reach of RICOThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.The recent Supreme Court decision in Skilling v. [read post]
28 May 2010, 7:33 am
Dentists, Dental Association Failed to Allege Fraud in RICO Claim Against InsurersThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.Three dentists and the American Dental Association (ADA) failed to assert a plausible class-action RICO claim against five insurance companies that allegedly engaged in a scheme to defraud dentists by reducing payments for dental services through improper bundling, automatic downcoding, and the manipulation of dental… [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 1:33 pm
Steak House Chain May Have Engaged in Racketeering Scheme to Violate Immigration LawsThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.Former employees of a Ruth’s Chris Steak House franchise in Birmingham, Alabama, sufficiently alleged that the franchisor, the franchisee, and the owner of the franchise had engaged in a racketeering scheme to violate federal immigration laws, the U.S. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 9:26 pm
Consumer Debtors Could Pursue Civil RICO Suit Based on Arbitration Fraud This posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.Consumer debtors pursuing a civil RICO action sufficiently alleged a pattern of racketeering involving arbitration fraud by a private equity firm and one of its subsidiaries, the federal district court in St. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 8:45 am
Government Contractor May Have RICO Liability for Human TraffickingThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.RICO claims predicated on forced labor and human trafficking could proceed against defense contractor Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), the federal district court in Houston has ruled. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 2:39 pm
Tobacco Companies, Justice Department Ask High Court to Review Civil RICO DecisionThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.In five separate petitions, six tobacco companies have asked the U.S. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 9:53 am
Investment Firm Not Liable Under RICO for Customer's Money Laundering SchemeThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.The receivers of seven insurance companies that lost nearly $200 million to Martin Frankel, an investor who had purchased the companies in order to loot their assets, could not prevail in a RICO conspiracy claim against Dreyfus Service Corp., the investment company that Frankel used to launder the insurance… [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 2:06 pm
High Court Further Delineates RICO’s Causation RequirementThis posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide.The City of New York was not directly injured by an out-of-state vendor’s failure to file Jenkins Act reports with the tobacco tax administrator of New York State, the U.S. [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 10:23 am
This posting was written by Mark Engstrom, Editor of CCH RICO Business Disputes Guide. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 5:24 pm
Ted Strickland halted the execution.Broom, 53, has appealed the state's attempt to try again.Ohio officials contend the single-drug method should end a five-year-old lawsuit against the state that claims injection can cause inmates severe suffering.Lethal-injection experts and defense attorneys for death-row inmates have said the one-drug method, a single dose of an anesthetic, would not cause pain.Biros, 51, killed 22-year-old Tami Engstrom near Warren in 1991 after offering to drive… [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 4:03 pm
" Here is more: The planned execution of Kenneth Biros, who was convicted of killing and dismembering Tammy Engstrom in 1991, will mark the first time a lethal single-drug dose of an anesthetic has ever been used on a death row inmate. [read post]
