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Seventh Circuit· 10/26/1992

McCool v. Strata Oil Co.

Citations

  • 972 F.2d 1452
  • 1992 WL 201123

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  • holding that statute of repose was not implicated because parties agreed to toll any applicable statute of limitations
  • noting that civil RICO claims require proof of injury to a plaintiff, while criminal - 17 - RICO prosecutions do not require injury and instead punish the defendant's \participation in the pattern as a whole\
  • “In securities fraud cases, the federal rule is that plaintiff's cause of action accrues on the date the sale is completed.”
  • “At the time it rendered its decision, the district court was clearly correct to apply the statute of limitations from Illinois blue-sky law_”
  • limitations period runs once there is a RICO violation and the plaintiff discovers the injury
  • accrual of cause of action depends on existence of injury

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Judges: Bauer, Cudahy, Easterbrook

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