Massey v. City of Oklahoma City

How courts have described this case

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• finding that city could not be liable for RICO violations by Police Chief and Assistant Police Chief because “the City itself is incapable of forming the mens rea or criminal intent necessary to perform an act of racketeering”
• although city officials have the capacity to form the mens rea to commit an act of racketeering, the city itself, the body politic, does not
• “[T]he City itself is incapable of forming the mens rea or criminal intent necessary to perform an act of racketeering[.]”
• although city officials have the capacity to form the mens rea to commit an act of racketeering, the city itself, the body politic, does not

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).