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Civil RICO: Fifty-Five Years on Substantive and Conspiracy Claims Under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1962 and 1964(C)
Kevin P. Roddy · Jeffrey E. Grell
Congress wrote RICO to break organized crime, but fifty-five years of litigation has turned 18 U.S.C. §§ 1962 and 1964(c) into a fraud and business-tort weapon that most civil litigators encounter without mastering its mechanics. The doctrinal traps multiply faster than the statute's plain text suggests—the person/enterprise distinction from Cedric Kushner and Boyle, the operation-or-management…
