Burns v. Michigan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that allegations of “frivolous, fraudulent, or baseless” litigation activity—such as preparing and filing false declarations in prior litigation—“cannot constitute a RICO predicate act”
• holding that litigation activity related to a single lawsuit is insufficient to be a RICO act
• holding that “a single frivolous, fraudulent, or baseless lawsuit . . . alone cannot constitute a viable RICO predicate act”
• concluding that “allegations of frivolous, fraudulent, or baseless litigation activities -- without more -- cannot constitute a RICO predicate act”
• concluding that allegations of frivolous, fraudulent, or baseless litigation activities, such as proffering false affidavits and testimony to a state court, cannot constitute a RICO predicate act
• concluding “that allegations of frivolous, fraudulent, or baseless litigation activities—without more—cannot constitute a RICO predicate act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).