Brannon v. Boatmen's First National Bank

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “a parent-subsidiary corporate relationship standing alone” is not sufficient to “invoke RICO liability”
• holding plaintiff failed to establish distinctness between parent corporation and its subsidiary
• affirming dismissal of a RICO claim because plaintiffs' \allegations do nothing more than define a legitimate corporate and financial relationship between [defendant] and its holding company.\
• explaining it is well settled “that for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), the defendant ‘person’ must be an entity distinct from the alleged ‘enterprise’”
• failure to attempt an amendment at the trial level waives the issue on appeal
• using \unified corporate structure” and \single corporate consciousness” language

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).