Apparel Art International, Inc. v. Leon Jacobson

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “several instances of criminal behavior,” including making bribes and false statements, were “appropriately characterized as separate parts of a single criminal episode” because they “comprise[d] a single effort to obtain (and to keep
• contrasting a “single, complex interstate bank robbery,” which is not continuous, with a “a string of interstate robberies,” which may be
• finding no pattern of racketeering activity and placing no import on the plaintiff-subcontractor’s allegation that the defendant-contractor's scheme to obtain a government contract included submission of false statements to the United States Department of Defense
• affirming dismissal of a RICO claim for failing to allege continuity despite identifying a subsequent “cover-up,” because this was a “separate part[] of a single criminal episode”
• discussing the elusiveness of a working definition of a RICO “pattern”
• “[A] single criminal episode, or event, is not a ‘pattern’ ... [because] its parts, taken together, do not ‘amount to or pose a threat of continued criminal activity.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).