 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1988 - 970 pages
...has been used for extortive purposes, giving rise to the very evils that it was designed to combat. Report of the Ad Hoc Civil RICO Task Force of the...ABA Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law 69 (1985) (hereinafter cited as ABA Report). Only 9% of all civil RICO cases have involved allegations... | |
 | Marc I. Steinberg - Business & Economics - 1984 - 1220 pages
...throughout the 1970's, 2% were decided in 1980, 7% in 1981, 13% in 1982, 33% in 1983, and 43% in 1984. Report of the Ad Hoc Civil RICO Task Force of the...ABA Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law 55 (1985). See: Milner, "A Civil RICO Bibliography," 21 Case W Res. L. Rev 409 (1985); Macintosh, "Racketeer... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - Emigration and immigration law - 1989 - 62 pages
...constituting a single scheme (or single episode) can support a cause of action under RICO); see also Report of the Ad Hoc Civil RICO Task Force of the...ABA Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law (March 28, 1985), pp. 193-208, for a discussion of "pattern" under RICO. 64 Teamsters v. US, 431 US... | |
 | Jed S. Rakoff, Howard W. Goldstein - Law - 2023 - 784 pages
...917 (1989) (collecting other cases prescribing a preponderance standard for RICO claims). Cf.: The Report of the Ad Hoc Civil RICO Task Force of the...ABA Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law 378-384 (1985) (proposing that the burden of proof for the predicate acts be beyond a reasonable doubt,... | |
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Accordingly, civil RICO lends itself, he argued, to the very extortive purpose *it was designed to combat." Justice Marshall cites as authority for this extraordinary proposition the Report of the Ad Hoc Civil RICO Task Force of the ABA Section of Corporations,... 
