Buttars v. Utah Mortgage Loan Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that health-and-welfare trust funds did not plead injuries proximately caused by RICO violation when the funds’ claimed that defendant’s misrepresentations to smokers caused the funds to incur higher healthcare costs
• noting that the existence of specific intent does not cure a lack of direct injury necessary under RICO
• noting that an allegation of specific intent does not overcome direct injury requirement
• noting that an allegation of specific intent does not overcome direct injury requirement
• noting that “other traditional rules requiring that defendant’s acts were a substantial cause of the injury, and that plaintiffs injury was reasonably foreseeable, are additional elements, not substitutes for alleging (and ultimately, showing) a direct injury”
• dismissing common law tort claims for lack of proximate cause after dismissing RICO claims for lack of standing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).