Hmk Corporation, a Virginia Corporation v. John C. Walsey

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that RICO applies only to “schemes whose scope and persistence set them above the routine”
• “In a private, commercial context, the fact that a scheme spans many years might constitute powerful support for the finding of a pattern of racketeering activity.”
• “The existence of a pattern . . . depends on context, particularly on the nature of the underlying offenses.”
• “[T]he heightened civil and criminal penalties of RICO are reserved for schemes whose scope and persistence set them above the routine.”
• “In a private, commercial context, the fact that a scheme spans many years might constitute powerful support for the finding of a pattern of racketeering activity.”
• given the “complexity of political processes in general,” “neither the number of predicate acts nor the span of time [four years] elevates the alleged scheme in this case to a pattern of racketeering activity under RICO”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).