Howard v. Colorado

How courts have described this case

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• speaking broadly and not discussing any potential distinguishing features among the language of the subsections, the court concludes that the “enterprise” and the “person” must be distinct entities throughout RICO
• “an owner of a business is competent to give his opinion as to the value of his property”
• mail fraud and wire charges could be brought although conduct was also charged under False Claims Act
• enterprise and individual must be distinct entities ... a defendant cannot conspire with his right arm
• “We conclude that ‘enterprise’ was meant to refer to a being different from, not the same as' or part of, the person whose behavior the act was designed to prohibit .... ”
• antitrust defense inapplicable because enforcement of contract would not assist party to commit conduct forbidden by antitrust laws

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).