Crouse v. Gardner

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the mail and wire fraud offenses at issue were “only tangentially related to the underlying fraud, and can be a matter of happenstance”
• holding that RICO liability attaches to intracorporate conspiracies
• discussing the theoretical \community of interest\ that causes a parent and subsidiary to pose \no threat to the goals of antitrust law--protecting competition\
• limiting D & S Auto Parts to cases \when a RICO claim is brought against the 'enterprise' itself\
• affirming jury verdict for plaintiffs on pattern issue where defendants’ fraud and theft injured four victims in separate transactions over a period of months
• finding necessary continuity where bust-out scheme involved many different types of predicate offenses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).